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abs9940

New Home Builder (Northern NJ)

12 years ago

Hi everyone,
New home builder and new to this site! My wife and I currently working with an architect on the floorplan/design. Hoping to break ground within a couple of months - move-in date is slotted for next summer. The house will be approximately 3,500sf (not including a finished basement). For those of you that recently built, my question to you is if you were to build again, what would you do differently? Thanks for your suggestions!

Andrew

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