My biggest fear with building a house isn't the price volatility or general stress, it's more the crippling fear I'd have for subsequently becoming aware of some fatal design flaw or discovering something we just completely missed on, and like a month or two after we moved in.
The thought of having guests over for the first time and your buddy casually suggesting something irreversible like the fireplace might been better somewhere else in the living room, him being right, and me just having to sit there and take it like an ignorant asshole.
So, no sir on building something new for Dad. Give me an old house with multiple owners spanning decades that I can deflect to for its deficiencies and shortcomings. I bear little responsibility for any of it, frankly.
Kitchen is a little dated? Yea, it was done in 2004. It needs to be redone and we'll get to it... "first on the list!" according to the lass. Ha. Hey I just work here, bud.
Outdoor living spaces are a game changer? For sure! I daydream about it all the time. Torn between open air and covered tbh. We'll get to it, I'm sure.
First floor laundry is a must have? No DOUBT! But I plan to die falling down the rickety basement staircase sometime around 2055, so, you know, not a real priority.
I'd just forever have to own building that shitty house with the weird fireplace, and it's too much to bear.
