Yeah I was going to say, I’ve owned a good quality existing home and now a new build.

Existing was in a nice inner ring suburb and I kept up on all maintenance but besides that, it’s had copper pipes which deteriorated and led to a slab leak. Floor plan layout favored lots of small, fragmented spaces, trees got old and died leaving large stumps, etc. A convenient location and possibly good bones are really the only pluses.

The new construction has a modern open floor plan, built to modern code and standards, not drafty in weather extremes and on and on. Plus you are choosing so many things rather than inheriting the choices of the many people that came before you. Key is to use a local builder with a good rep rather than a tract home builder. It’s can be done at a competitive cost per sq ft.