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Old 10-28-2013, 10:53 AM
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Regarding "He says, "The Developer is gouging people".......

The developer is probably blamed for the sun setting earlier this time of year, too.

The fact is, no home buyer buys a new home here and writes a check for it with a gun to their head. Any day of the week, a buyer can buy a slightly used almost-new home from an owner or MLS real estate broker/agency, and they'll have a "new" home that has all the enhancements already done and they'll be in a neighborhood that is established and close to one of the town squares.

If new home buyers are paying "too much" and "getting gouged", it's their own fault......or maybe, knowing how prices are a lot higher on either coast, these new home prices seem like a bargain compared to what they're used to seeing in NY or CA, MA, etc. Often, a $300,000 designer home here would cost two or three times that amount in another state, and it would be stick-built and not concrete..