why the builders I asked only directly deal with agent, i.e. you have to have an agent to represent you...

新房的最大好处是floorplan可以根据自己的意见建
但是其他的。。。不觉得省了多少心
不过是可能旧房操心的地方不用操了
(这个。。。地板还是要自己换。。)
但是心都操在别的的方了

是啊。lanscape如果别人做得好了自己也不用再花时间设计花时间做了。
自己设计自己做当然更好，不过我觉得可能没有这么多时间了。
旧房如果买不好，什么都得换。地板，厨房，bath。。。。
不过买得好的话就省心了。

There is always a tradeoff between brand new homes and old ones especially here in NorCal. The new homes here are actually called "patio homes", ie. they normally only have a very small patio so the lot sizes are normally less than 3000 sf. The old homes here, especially really old ones (like 50+ years old) have much larger lot sizes, like 8000 - 1/2 acre. So old homes here actually have better investment values, because the land in bay area is less and less so owning a bigger land is better than a small one from the investment point of view.

In addition, Bay Area has a relatively long history, so normally old homes have better geographical locations.

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提一句，买新房要建deck的，可以咨询一下ion这种材料，比木头强百倍，根本不用
每年刷油，很省心

哇,真是谢谢JJ的TIPS,我们正对建DECK没什么IDEA呢....

可能各个地方不一样吧,跳过AGENT也少很多麻烦,说实话要找个满意的AGENT比登天还难.

why the builders I asked only directly deal with agent, i.e. you have to have an agent to represent you...