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Small-Cherry2468 t1_j6nnoti wrote

I live 10 minutes from Cranberry. I don't understand why these people are paying $400K+ for a house made out of chip board that you could essentially break into with a utility knife. There is no housing shortage in the area. I guess if that's what you want, but there's a lot more available for the money. Oh, but it's a new house! Yeah, that you'll be replacing the water heater and appliances in 5 years if your lucky, a furnace and windows in ten. It's helping my resale on my much more modest home, but those plan homes would be my own personal hell.

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hypotenoos t1_j6nu5wi wrote

Cranberry isn’t doing much for your resale in Beaver Co. Seneca Valley and access to 79/76 is the driver.

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Small-Cherry2468 t1_j6nuvw3 wrote

Actually it is, I live right on the county line. People are looking at the cost and realizing there are more affordable properties not much further. Developers are building homes in the 15005 zip code. Seneca Valley although a huge school, isn't much better than other local districts, my niece and nephew are Seneca grads.

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NecessaryReturn1398 t1_j6otlo4 wrote

I’ll take Seneca over Ambridge any day. As a former Economy resident, the taxes vs quality of the school just isn’t there. Yes, there affordable in price but my 260k ranch in economy expensive tax wise. I moved to harmony and my house is bigger and only about 700 more per year in taxes and the district is loads better than Ambridge.

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hypotenoos t1_j6nxc2l wrote

You can buy a house just as well priced up in Jackson or Lancaster or Forward in Butler, be in SV and still be able to get to 79/228 faster than from freedom area.

Certainly Cranberry helps out Beaver, but there isn’t that much cross shopping.

You can tell by the hardline of development ending at the county border the whole way up to Ellwood City. Land is way cheaper on the Beaver side but the developers aren’t biting.

School districts are largely a matter of perception being reality. SV has an outsized reputation and no district in Beaver is even close.

Signed, A real estate appraiser

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j6nuhkc wrote

Exaggerate much? Most existing homes have shit floor plans and just as shitty construction and past owners that do dumbass remodels

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Small-Cherry2468 t1_j6nvewc wrote

Ask any person in construction what they think of the build quality of new homes. Yes, the floor pans are nice, yes they are more efficient. But I doubt they will be here in 50 years. The 1940s-1970s were the best time for modern home building. If you don't agree, you're buying into the hype of the "new home" that's going to be outdated anyway.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j6nwgn7 wrote

Poor efficiency tiny kitchens tiny bathrooms and the build quality is just as shitty. Everything has been built as cheap as possible since the great depression, ww2, gi bill, baby boom and today.

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