A newly built house. [Photo/Capitalfm]
Often, when someone decides that they’re ready to own a home, they start hitting the real estate listings looking for houses. In many situations, that’s the best move, particularly if you desire to live in a home in a pre-existing neighborhood or in a population-dense area.
However, it’s not always the most cost-effective move.
According to Mr. Alex Muema director at Ndatani Enterprises Company Limited, taking the initiative to construct your own house eventually will be far much prudent than buying a ready-made house. The real estate company that specializes in selling value-added plots highlights why:
You get to choose your preferred location
If you take the option of buying the land first, you have the upper hand in choosing your preferred area, route and zone. Your heart is king here, and it will forever be contented at the area where you opt to zoom in.
You construct at you own pace
When you are doing it by yourself, you are able to take your time undertaking one of the most important projects in your life, constructing your very own palace – a brick at a time.
You get to choose your own architectural design
Almost every young man has a fanciful image of the kind of house that they would wish to live in later in life. The only way to translate this into reality is to have your own land, get in touch with the best architect, then come up with a classic design that matches your dream.
Every aspect of your house is new
If you go for an already made house, chances are that some aspects of your house may be the wardrobes or the interior fittings are just some old pieces that have been thoroughly worked on using stacks of sandpapers and layers upon layers of hoodwinking varnish to seemingly look new. By doing your very own house, you avoid such pitfalls.
You avoid buyer’s remorse
That small defect that you hadn’t noted at the beginning and it is now bothering you so much or some rots under the basement that initially didn’t seem to have been there at first sight, until you later accidentally stepped on it and everything went crumbling down like some ancient ruined tower. That is what you will precisely avoid, by taking the initiative to buy some piece of land and diligently build a house that you and your offsprings will cherish decades to come.