It's interesting from my perspective trying to sell a home, that I
"over-built" because I was never going to move. I've had a lot of
people stop by, and they just don't want to pay for the extras. Nobody
cares that the A/C unit was sized for the house AND the basement.
Nobody cares that the lot was hand picked over a year of looking. They
compare me with the developer built homes across the lake and say "why
would I buy your house when I can get a new one in Saratoga Springs or
Lehi?" As long as people would rather have a new house than a good
house, there's going to be a problem. It could also be that people no
longer know what to look for. They assume that a house is a house is a
house - and then get upset when it isn't.
On a similar note, it's not an isolated problem (as pointed out
earlier), I'm seeing it all over California as we look for homes. I
haven't seen a home between the age of 3 and ten years where the miter
joints aren't opening up on the door moldings. The irony is that many
of the new homes were built on the graves of poorly built homes from the
post-war boom. Custom neighborhoods are no guarantee of quality either,
as you can see which homes were built well and which were not after 40
years or so. The bad ones are bought for the land and torn down.
That's going on in Orem too.
Dave's right - there's nothing like living in a well built home. :)
-Peter
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