Would you rather build or buy?

RECYCLE! Buy a house already built! you'll save trees, resources and land! You can always make it your with upgrades. We bought a house for 95,000 and redid all the bathrooms and kitchen. made it ours and gave habitat for humanity our left overs.

With all the short sales on houses you can find a deal on a nice house! Short sales are just houses the bank have settled on a price,less then the loan to sell. banks aren't realtors and they just want to get rid of them at that cost. it helps the home owner & bank. And even better you!
RECYCLE!

Ideally, most people would rather build their own house, I would if money is no object! But with the price of construction materials, labor etc., building a new home can be quite frustrating!

My husband has a construction and renovation company, you could imagine our house is like a forever under construction with bits of things added here and there.

Across our street there's a house like Phoenix rising from the ashes. Built from scratch and it has been over a year since they started to work on it. My husband's company did some jobs there and he has been consulted every now and then. But the Indian guy wanted to save some money and did shortcuts and the house has just too many faults.

What I'm saying is, I've seen how difficult to build a new one rather than renovating an existing house.

I have a dcream home with plans but, who has the type opf cash I need for this dream home? Not I anyhow. Maybe if I win the Lottery bigtime I may have this home. But for now I take my cheap lillte 2 bedroom 1954 built home that's valued at $180,000.
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i prefer building to designed by desire.

I always thought that I'd rather build but when it was actually time, we found our dream house. Luckily it was already built and it didn't take long at all to close on it and move in.

We have already built 2 new homes from the bottom up..That was when we were younger,now if i were to buy it would be already built..However if a couple just starting out or young enough i would suggest them build,that way they could get it just like they want it...

If I have to do it over again I would rather buy. We went through a rough stressful time when we left our apartment and purchased a new home. First you have to deal with your apartment the timing of it from the time the leases is over and the time you move into the new home. Then through each steps of the process you have to be involve with the decision making of each pieces of the materials you want for your house from the type of flooring to the fixtures in the home and everything elses in between. Like I said if I have to do it all over again, I would rather buy a 2-5 years old home instead of a brand new built home.

I plan on purchasing an apartment building and I plan on having it built for me brand new. I just don't think it's worth the risk to buy an older building that could potentially have dozens upon dozens and dozens of problems, you know?

I would love to build. If I could find one layed out the way I like, that would not be too bad either.

Having experience in the trade, I would opt to buy a house. While I sometimes imagine what a house built just for me and the wife would look like, I realize that it is way more trouble than it is worth (permits, supplies, labor issues, etc). Personally, I would end up hiring someone to do the work because I am too busy to do the job myself. Heck, I even farm out most repair jobs around the house. I would rather spend my time working on my college degree and my writing than do hard physical labor. So in the end, it makes a lot more sense to do what me and the wife did, we brought a pre-existing home.