hi I'm Jan and you may have found this channel through a video I made a while
ago called we bought and lived in a $47,000 house I've gotten a few
requests to talk about more house stories more home purchasing homes
selling stuff so I thought why not talk about the house after that which cost us
a lot more than $47,000 this was a house in Atlanta it was in a suburb of Atlanta
and we paid a hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars for this house but
here's the big difference the forty-seven thousand dollar house was
built in 1950s this house that we paid significantly more for was new
construction so I sort of wanted to go over some of the differences that we
have found from living in an older home to living in a brand-new house because
there is a very large difference so we've been looking for a house in the
Atlanta area around 2014 and prices had recovered quite a bit from when we
bought the forty seven thousand dollar house so when I first moved to Atlanta
you could find houses all over the place for like 50 grand 70 grand and when we
were first looking we were definitely thinking along that price range clearly
we're very cheap and we like to find good deals so we were hoping to find a
house that was definitely under $75,000 but here's what we ran into the Atlanta
market for homes was pretty interesting and what I mean by that is that it was
very difficult to find a well-maintained home that was in our price range in fact
it was really hard to find something that was in good shape for under a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars I'm not kidding you
we looked at quite a few homes that were 10 20 years old in that were like almost
tear downs they had extreme termite damage and really bad mold issues and
those two things or something you don't want in a house I've heard somebody say
that water is one of the biggest enemies to a house and
so true you do not want you do not want mold in the house it literally can
destroy the entire house and termites can also clearly do a lot of damage to a
house and one thing I would like to say there's a big difference between dry
wood termites and subterranean termites the forty-seven thousand dollar house we
had in Florida at one point had dry wood termites but those are like the slower
moving ones we saw a lot of homes in the Atlanta area that had subterranean
termite damage and those suckers do damage really quickly so that's not
something you want we saw some homes that were built in the
90s that we weren't even sure how they were still standing we also noticed that
a lot of the homes we saw in Atlanta just we're not well taken care of we're
not maintained it almost kind of seemed like the people that were buying these
houses they like stretch themselves to the limit and then they didn't have the
cash to pay for all the things that come with homeownership and there are quite a
few costs that come with owning a home it is not always cheaper than renting do
not believe that that is not that is not the truth I hear people be like oh well
you're just throwing your money or your what away on rent and owning is so much
better in some circumstances that may be the case but owning a home can be very
expensive and if you don't have cash to pay for it you could get yourself into
some trouble here so when we're looking at homes we the price range we were
looking at kept going up and up because we were just we're not finding anything
suitable and we were not gonna get into a home that was that was had a lot of
surprises or had projects that were like where we were in over our heads for
instance we've been on one house this house had some potential it was it was
mostly brick it had a really cool basement with super high ceilings
although there was some radon in it and but the biggest issues were definitely
you needed a new roof it had animal damage and there were some structural
things going on with it like it had a fireplace with a chimney
and the chimney looked like it was seriously like falling away from the
house and it definitely had some like cracks in the brickwork and it was it
was one of those homes I believe it was a short sale or something like that but
they were not we put in a bid but the people were not willing to remediate
remediate some of the damage so we ended up like walking away from it so
eventually we came across this builder that was building new construction homes
in a suburb of Atlanta that was not too far away from downtown at the time I
worked downtown so I needed to have a commute that wasn't super crazy and
something you should know about the Atlanta area is that traffic is insane
so even if you live a few miles from work it could take you an hour to get
there I'm not kidding you so which part of town you live in is super important
especially depending on where you work so we found this builder that was
building and what had happened was during the recession in like 2007-2008
somebody had run out of money they had started building this community like
they put in a road I think they put in like the underground electrical and then
they ended up not doing anything with it so our home builder ended up buying that
land and then decided to build 50 homes there so when I found this neighborhood
no one had purchased city homes there the price ranges for the homes were like
169 to like 180 something so we decided to go with that because in here's why
it's because at least this home this home was about 20 grand more than the
150 price range we had kind of been at for a while but at least we knew this
home wouldn't have any major issues and right off the bat because it was
brand-new so we decided to do that it was too late along in the process for us
to pick out a lot of the finishings so some of the stuff in this house and I'll
show you some before pictures some of the finishes were definitely not what
I've chosen like the cabinet color was was pretty bad the wall color was horror
it was very unflattering we ended up having to get the whole house painted
later on I'll show you some before and after pictures and like some of the I
think I have to pick out the type of light fixtures like what color they were
and I think I got to pick out the carpet which the carpet ended up being an okay
color fairly neutral and we ended up just keeping that now these are very
these are very builder grade homes so there was no like tile like the
bathrooms all the bathrooms in kitchen all had like linoleum or like vinyl
flooring you know the shower just had like the bathrooms just had that like
fiberglass insert thing you know so I get again these this was just very
builder-grade stuff so we ended up going with this
house it was a four bedroom two and a half bath house with the two-car garage
I also made sure to pick this because we were the first people to move in I
picked out a lot where we only had one immediate neighbor to the right of our
to the left of our house if you're looking at it straight on there was a
little bit of a wooded area and then there was another house across the
street there was like a little bit like a retention pond or something so we
didn't have a neighbor across the street we just had a neighbor to the right side
of her house and again I'll try to show you some pictures Sam was a good selling
point our house was the cheapest house in the entire subdivision and we ended
up being the first people to move in by like a couple months so some things you
should know about new construction homes the good is that our utility bills were
super low because everything was like up to the latest codes and standards for
building our utility bills were lower in the four bedroom house then in a
one-bedroom apartment in Atlanta I'm not kidding you our electric bill was lower
in the house and at least we knew that we didn't have any like major home
maintenance to go along with it for a while so that was good
some of the downsides are I would say so we've ran into this pretty major issue
with mail delivery apparently our builder in the United
States Postal Service had a bit of a miscommunication so let me talk about
that so when we first moved into the house they put in mailboxes forever
one and I tried like I I assumed mail would be getting there so I changed her
address to this address the address was existing with the post office but like
through some back-and-forth I learned that the post office has some newer
regulations that any newer home instead of getting into individual mailboxes I
think this is for logistics purposes and again to kind of cut some corners a new
neighborhoods apparently are required to have what's called a cluster box or like
that kiosk with mailboxes in it and our builder apparently did not get the
message also when we moved in I had to call the county our builder kind of
dropped the ball on a few things again this is a lower-priced new
construction still a good deal I mean now where can you find a brand new
single-family home for under 200 it's a little bit tough now but I felt like at
the time that was the the best option for this situation
so the Builder had definitely not dotted all their eyes and crossed all their T's
with some of the government stuff so when I called the county we were living
in they apparently didn't know anyone was living in the neighborhood we had no
street signs so like we technically didn't exist I had trouble getting
deliveries of mail like delivery services even pizza for two years people
had trouble finding her house it took a while before the neighborhood was on
Google Maps so that's something I did not anticipate about moving into new
construction that you should definitely know about if you're if you're getting
into that especially knowing that new neighborhoods you won't you won't get
your own mailbox you'll have one of those kind of unsightly kiosks which
after going back and forth the Builder argued with the post office for awhile
and then finally ended up relenting and getting the cluster box but for six
months the post office refused to deliver bail to us which was was super
fun and when I would go to the post office they would get me a really hard
time about it and I'm like look people you
it's not my fault that the Builder you know didn't communicate with you guys
and did not put in these cluster boxes why are you taking it out on me so that
was sort of that was definitely a very frustrating experience also the fact
that I had to call to get our own streets line also a little irritating
and I will say a lot of these home building companies definitely look at
their customer service because after the sale it was very difficult to get in
touch with our builder and to get any sort of response or some sort of help or
assistance from them I finally ended up getting the email to the prom' building
company president and he ended up being the one to kind of take care of the post
office issue but the salesperson I'd been working with like totally ghosted
me and and kind of lied to the president saying that she'd helped me when she
really hadn't I ended up being the one to be the liaison with the post office
and that was a total nightmare I probably spent 40 to 50 hours alone just
working on that seriously this company should have put me on the payroll so
that's one gripe I have about moving into a new construction home but I'm
sure not all companies are like that you just I would say if you're looking at
new construction definitely look at the service record talk to previous
customers and look at reviews to see like post sale is this company
responsive will they take care of issues after they sell you the house or are
they just gonna leave you high and dry like my builder did so that was
definitely very frustrating it was really nice being in a newer home
especially after being in that 1950s house again just things were up to date
although I will say because we were in kind of a lower price new construction
home the finished work out our house is a little shoddy like they used the wrong
caulk and all the trim so after we were there for a while like it was pretty
obvious that it was not working with the trim again things were pretty
builder-grade so we ended up upgrading things later on but again this was not
like the finest quality work I've ever seen in a house but for 169 you know we
weren't really complain about it so we ended up doing
some we didn't have to do a whole lot to the house although since since we were
in a four-bedroom house and we have no kids and we don't really entertain a lot
I know not everything's like the people on hgtv's house hunters
we ended up turning our living dining room into a workshop for my husband like
a woodworking shop so we ripped out the carpet I will link some photos I'll try
to insert some photos because I do have a few of those so because it was built
on a slab there were no there were no basements in this house although
interestingly enough these houses went really quickly so by the end of like
they were building these houses one by one towards the end they jacked up the
prices on some of the later homes and they started putting in some nicer
features this was a good thing because that kind of brought the value of our
home up as well like they started doing some cool architectural stuff like no
sir garage doors some of the later homes have wrought iron railings on the
staircases inside ours did not so they they were starting to realize hey we can
drop a little more money into these homes and people pay for them and a
couple of the houses in our neighborhood actually had a walk a walk up bait like
a like a walk in basement which was pretty cool so I think the last house in
her neighborhood sold for two hundred and twelve thousand dollars and at the
end of this video I'll kind of share with you what we sold it for and also
what what's happening with the neighborhood at the end of the time we
were living there we did transition that back into a living dining room just for
resale purposes we've realized not everyone wants a workshop in their house
so we decided to do that and the garage is in the these this subdivision they
weren't very large so you had room to park your cars in there but not a whole
lot else although somehow my husband figured out how to get a riding
lawnmower into the garage like very carefully we were the only people in the
neighborhood with a riding lawnmower and we also had a very small lot which is
another story but my husband really wanted it so towards the end we decided
to sell the house home we're really going up and one of our
neighbors had sold their house for like two I think 25 and they didn't really do
anything to it so we had a realtor come in we worked with a realtor named
Lindsay Kessler I'll leave her information below because she was she
was good to work with she gave us some suggestions for what we could do to the
house she suggested painting the cabinets white putting in a solid
surface countertop that did not come standard with our house
and she had us repaint the whole house and do just some minor things like she
had us replace the carpet and the living dining room with engineered hardwood
which we ended up doing I did another video on our home makeover so I will
also link that below and up in the cards if you want to take a look and get more
of an in-depth look at what we did to the home but we ended up spending about
10,000 dollars and while we initially bought our house for one hundred and
sixty nine thousand nine hundred dollars we didn't up selling it for 225 so two
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and we only put about ten grand into it
so we ended up definitely getting all that money back and we ended up walking
away from the sale we got a check we got checker wired into our bank account
sixty-eight thousand dollars so we got all of our downpayment back we got all
of the money we put into the house and a little bit more so we ended up using all
of that money to pay off our student loans so that's how we became debt-free
which is which is a cool story I know I've talked a little bit about that here
on this channel and I definitely plan to do more with that but I will say one
another benefit to paint a little bit more for the house which was definitely
something we did not plan for is that the house appreciated more as well like
for instance we sold our previous house we bought it for 47 and we sold it for
85 so that was a price increase of about $40,000 but this house we had a price
increase of of definitely about Lexie so we bought
for about little under 170 so we had a appreciation of it
$50,000 plus we got the the down payment back so one benefit to pay more for
house is that you have more room to go up so anyways I just wanted to share a
little bit about our latest house if you're interested I was thinking about
talking about a condo before I met my husband I was a homeowner when I
probably shouldn't have been but I bought a 64 thousand dollar condo in El
Paso Texas unfortunately I really have no photos of the place so that's why
I've been sort of hesitating about talking about that particular home
purchase just because I don't really have any visuals but leave me a comment
below if you'd like me to talk about it anyways I would be happy to I'm just you
know I just realized a lot of people want to see pictures of the house and I
I didn't have enough foresight to realize that I would be doing this later
on so I don't have any really good photos so anyways if you have any
questions about home ownership or just want to leave me a comment or a thought
let me know what you think I'm Jen I love talking about just about anything
and I'll see you again for another video
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