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Originally Posted by BettyInFL
You are buying the 'lifestyle', not a quality home meant to be lived in for the next 20 to 30 years.
Look at the cheap 'short' cabinets, no dovetail or 'soft-close' drawers, carpet everywhere, and other 'quality' details that you would expect.
In our utility room we found the the plumbing was backwards. (i.e. cold water in the hot water connection), cheap water turn off valves in the bathrooms, no cupboard hardware (knobs and drawer pulls) in the kitchen or bathrooms, no light fixtures/ceiling fans in the bedrooms, and so on.
Fortunately, hubby is pretty handy around the house. Have spent a bunch of money at Lowes (why don't we have stock in that company???) and spent the first couple of months in our new house (built 2004) updating all these details.
Love it here, and paid a premium to be here. But, gee whiz... ..
It is up to you what is acceptable and what you feel the need to upgrade.
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We just bought a spec home in Hawkins. It has tile that looks like wood floors throughout the house, except carpet in the bedrooms, has the 42” upper kitchen cabinets, beautiful quartz counters everywhere, soft close drawers in kitchen, high grade plumbing fixtures, Carrier heat pump, wired as a smart home.....could keep going, so I don’t know what you are referring to about “cheap” spec homes. They are anything but....