Pros and Cons of Buying a West Bloomfield Condo or Home

5 pros and cons of buying a West Bloomfield home or West Bloomfield condo. Let me give you a few pros and cons of buying a West Bloomfield home or West Bloomfield condo.

West Bloomfield condos - Con – You have neighbors very close to you. You share a wall with them. So people are going to be in your business a little more. What I mean by that is that you can’t be loud, or if you are having a family dispute your neighbors may be hearing it.                 

You are limited in what you can do on the outside of your condos. Condo associations like the outsides to look the same (continued)

You may not be able to put out a flag, paint your front door a different .color, put in a different bush, or put out a yard statue/ nic nac. It may be prohibited

West Bloomfield condos do not appreciate as fast or as much as West Bloomfield homes. I am basing this on past history and experience. West Bloomfield homes tend to appreciate faster.

Pro – You don’t have to take care of the outside of your West Bloomfield condo. No cleaning gutters, caulking the outside, snow shoveling, no grass cutting, no outside painting. So if you are a busy professional this frees up your weekends a little bit to do other things. Or if you travel a lot you don’t have to worry about having your snow shoveled for you.

You don’t have to negotiate or worry about contract all those services. Your condo association board or management company does all that.

West Bloomfield homes - Pro – You can park where you want. Some West Bloomfield condo complexes tell you where your visitors can park or how many cars can be on the driveway.

You have nobody right next to you and you don’t have tough association rules that control what you do outside. (Sure some neighborhood associations have some rules but, not to the degree that a West Bloomfield condo association would. You can plant flowers, or change the landscape any way you want. You can paint your front door any color you want. You have freedom to do more and be more individualistic than you do in a West Bloomfield condos. 

You do not have the costly monthly association dues that you would have in a West Bloomfield condo. As a homeowner you have the ability to negotiate the cost of your grass cutting, or whether you want somebody else to shovel your snow, or you can delay putting on a roof because you can’t afford it.

Con – You have to maintain the outside of the house. You have to cut the grass, repair the roof, clean the gutters or pay to have somebody to it.

I hope these pros and cons of buying a West Bloomfield home or West Bloomfield condo made you think a little more about what you really want.

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