{"id":6109,"date":"2016-01-28T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:03:33","slug":"buy-new-house-instead-old-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/buy-new-house-instead-old-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Buy a New House Instead of an Old One"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, so obviously we\u2019re a home-building company. We have plenty of skin in the game, here. We want you to buy a new home, and we want you to buy it from us.<\/p>\n

That said, we think if you asked your friends who have bought older homes, you\u2019d find out that many of them wish they\u2019d have gone with something newer, something with fewer problems, something that was more their own.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why you should buy a new home:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Up to Code<\/h2>\n

Even old homes have to be brought up to code before they can be sold, but there is only so much an inspector is capable of doing, or required to do. For example, unless for some reason the walls are opened and the electical wiring is exposed, the inspector won\u2019t be inspecting that. Which means an older home could have electrical gremlins and fire hazards lurking behind its walls, even though the house was give the OK from the inspector. Even if, for some reason, you\u2019re not concerned about fire hazards, if you ever go to tear down a wall or expand or repair flood damage, and you have to get a city permit, the city is going to make you update the wiring as a condition of issuing the permit.<\/p>\n

This is just one example. Older homes also tend to have older plumbing, which corrodes and clogs over time, and may spring a leak. Though the old pipes will usually pass inspection, they\u2019re build with inferior, outdated materials that wouldn\u2019t be used in homes today.<\/p>\n

You Can Customize It<\/h2>\n

When you buy an older house, you get what you get, which is to say you usually get the previous owner\u2019s tastes already built in. If you happen to have the exact same tastes, it\u2019s perfect. But if not, you\u2019re either going to spend a lot of your own time and energy repainting walls and replacing hardware, or you\u2019re going to spend more of your own money paying someone else to do it. When you\u2019re a home\u2019s first owner, you get to make those decisions along the way.<\/p>\n

You Can Get a Warranty<\/h2>\n

Chesmar Homes offers warranties on our builds to insure that if anything goes wrong with your home, you don\u2019t have to worry about it. You can purchase third-party warranties on older homes, but they usually don\u2019t cover the home\u2019s structure or major components.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re Built for Modern Lifestyles<\/h2>\n

Ever notice how when people come over, they wind up congregating in the kitchen? Yeah, try that in an older home, where the kitchen was a little sliver in the back of the home, isolated from the rest and just big enough for some appliances and a person to use them. Modern, open floor plans are built for modern lifestyles. You can get that open, conversational vibe you\u2019re looking for without having to knock out any walls.<\/p>\n

You Have So Many Options<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re shopping for older homes, you invariably end up looking at houses that you like, but are in locations you don\u2019t like. Or the location you like doesn\u2019t have any homes that suit your tastes. When you buy from Chesmar Homes, you get to choose from a\u00a0huge variety of neighborhoods and floor plans<\/a>, insuring that whatever your needs, we have something to suit them.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re in the market for a home, check out our inventory, and give us a call at 281-598-1111, and get started on your way to owning a beautiful, new, carefree home today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right, so obviously we\u2019re a home-building company. We have plenty of skin in the game, here. We want you to buy a new home, and we want you to buy it from us. That said, we think if you asked your friends who have bought older homes, you\u2019d find out that many of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}