My husband and I bought this home in March. There is nothing wrong with it, it is a new construction detached 3 bd with 2 1/2 bath townhome in a nice area of PA. We were okay with the purchase and relatively happy in the house until recently.
A neighbor came to talk to my husband. He told my husband that the build quality was shitty (why he is now living in his house idk) and the construction company was a joke. Now we did have a leak in our powder room right before we moved in, it was a freak accident (faulty valve in sink NOT an installation problem) nothing could have prevented it and it was not from shoddy building. The contractors (who are also still building other townhomes here) took care of it immediately and replaced our floor and fixed the sink. It took only two weeks from start to finish and we have had no other problems.
Now my husband is doubting our decision to buy a home at all and says we only bought a home because I wanted one. We had been saving for two years and finally hit our goal right as we found out we were expecting child #2. He says we should have waited and rented for longer because he now makes more money and we could afford an even better home. He is also unsure about the quality of our neighbors. He believes that we rushed to make this purchase because our lease was coming to an end, but we did plan to move to a short term lease just in case we didn’t find a house in time.
These houses are selling very quickly, the houses down the road are already sold despite not being finished. Our house was 300k and is definitely not a crappy house. We did get a significant discount because we opted out of some features while our house was in its final stages and we did not get the basement finished. I now want to just sell the house because of his anxiety and stress.
We were both very anxious about buying a home and were nervous from the beginning about buying something and having something seriously wrong with it after it was too late. I don’t think it would have mattered where we moved to. He did suggest we keep renting and we did consider it. He also suggested buying a much cheaper home outright and just fixing it up as we go. I was okay with both of these suggestions. He was the one who ended up finding this new construction and seemed very okay with everything that was going on. Now I am frustrated and anxious (and almost 7 months pregnant). I asked him multiple times if this is what he wanted to do and if he was sure about this decision while reassuring him that I was fine living anywhere and I just wanted him to be sure. We obviously then bought and moved into the home. Now I am at a total loss of what to do or say.
TLDR: husband suddenly thinks we made a wrong choice in buying a house at all and tries to say we only bought a house because I wanted one.
Update to some comments: We have a home warranty, and because it’s a townhome we have some deed restrictions but no HOA and have an people to go to for home repairs. We have a way to get anything that goes wrong with the house taken care of.
Financially we are doing fine. We have no debt and don’t even make car payments as we bought the car outright 3 years ago, it was a brand new and basic car which we have no problems with. There is nothing draining us of money and we only have the mortgage now. My husband just got another raise and we stick to a very comfortable budget. If anything, now we have more room to breathe.
He said that we just delayed us getting our “forever home” by five years and this decision will ultimately screw us and our children financially somewhere down the road because now we have to save money to buy another home and I guess he’s not sure the value on this house will stay the same?
Submitted May 27, 2019 at 04:41AM by ljdb http://bit.ly/30OaJlG
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