Today's new homes offer more
benefits than ever before. Here's a quick list of the Top 10 reasons why so
many home buyers prefer new home communities to used houses:
1) Design Your Dream Home Your
Way: Why settle for someone else's choices when you can select your favorite
cabinets, countertops, appliances, carpets and flooring? While you're at it,
you can choose gorgeous bath and kitchen fixtures, lighting and other options
that you love. Your new home will reflect your style, not someone else's taste.
2) Choose a Floor Plan and Room
Layout that Meets Your Needs: Want a master bedroom on the first floor? It's
yours. With massive his and her's walk-in closets? Done! Want high ceilings and
a luxurious, resort-style master bath? Perhaps you'd like a sitting room with a
fireplace in your owner's suite or French doors that open to your private patio
or the pool? It's easy, when you build your master suite your way.
3) All New, Under Warranty: A
used home likely has tired products that may soon need replacing. Your new home
— and the products that comprise it — are brand-new and under warranty. What's
the cost to replace a roof, appliances, countertops or a water heater on a used
home? Those components of your new home feature the latest designs and building
materials and should offer you years of comfort and enjoyment before needing
replacement.
4) Energy and Cost Savings:
Today's new homes are far more energy efficient than homes built just five
years ago. Versus homes built ten or 20 years ago, it's game over, advantage
new.Why settle for drafty, energy-wasting single-pane windows in a used home?
Many new homes offer double or even triple-pane windows. Special window
coatings and inert gases between the layers of glass are often available,
saving you even more energy and money in both heating and cooling season.
5) Comfort and Indoor Air
Quality: Today's new homes meet stringent energy standards and codes not in
place in the past. They combine high-performance energy efficiency with
state-of-the-art ventilation and air filtration. The result is year-round,
draft-free comfort and higher indoor air quality.
6) Low Maintenance: New cars
today are computer-designed and computer-equipped. That's why they perform much
more reliably than a car that's 15 or 20 years old. Homes are the same. Today's
new homes have open floor plans and high ceilings that reflect the way we live
today. They're also made of cutting-edge building products that require less
care and maintenance. Another plus? The latest building systems and components
are designed and engineered to work together.
7) Community Amenities: Many new
homes are built in lavish master-planned communities with resort-style
community centers, pools and clubhouses. Many new home communities also feature
hiking trails, protected open lands and some of the best new schools and
shopping near (or even within) your new home community.
8) Advanced Technology and
Design: It's possible to replace all of the single-pane windows in a resale home
with today's high-performance windows. It's also possible to add insulation to
a used home. However, it's very expensive to replace dated appliances, cabinets
and countertops in a used home — and you still won't have the high ceilings you
dream of on the first floor of an older two-story home. All are reasons to
build your new home your way, to reflect the way you live today.
9) Safety: State-of-the-art
circuit breakers. Electric garage door openers with infrared beams that stop if
a tricycle or child is too near. High-efficiency furnaces and air conditioners
that use the latest environmentally-friendly coolants. Cabinets, carpets and
paints that use fewer volatile organic compounds, so that you and your family
can breathe easier.
10) That New Home Feel: A used
home was someone else's dream, not yours. It reflects their choices and family
memories. You may learn to love avocado-green appliances (and you may be
willing to scrub stained countertops or grease-encrusted ovens and cooktops)
but more and more people prefer that never lived-in feel.
After all, when was the last time
you went to a department store and selected used clothes? Or visited a car
dealer and paid more for a used car than a new car?
By Jay McKenzie from New Home Source
Interested in a new home? Please do not hesitate to call us at Landon Homes, (904)567-3430!
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