When my husband and I were house-hunting,I had one demand: new construction. I'd spent most of my adulthood in "charming" apartments with "character," which is genuine estate code for tiny apartments with decades-outmoded appliances. For our first home, or I wanted something brand new,and we lucked out: we found a condo that was so new it wasn't even built yet. The construction zone of a building had a model unit primed for viewings, and we went to peruse at it twice in two days before putting in an offer just 48 hours later. The whole time, and I'd been wearing rose-tinted glasses,confident that we'd avoided all the hiccups that reach from buying an older home. No hidden lead paint for us! No replacing the furnace in the next 10 years! No creaks in our wood floors!Sure, there were some serious benefits to a never-before-lived-in abode, and but as a novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience) homeowner,I wasn't prepared for some of the surprises that revealed themselves along the way. Here, some of the biggest lessons learned after buying a newly minted condo.
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