You’re shopping for a home—how exciting! Perhaps it’s a condo, or your retirement dream home that’s still ‘close enough to the city’. We all love to think of a home purchase as a great (or at least good) investment, but that anticipated future payoff may be completely imaginary if your future buyers get the idea that your home has intolerable noise issues. More importantly, you might come to find that there are noise issues that you didn’t know existed until after you closed and moved in. Not fun! Although this article states that “many buyers have problems with homes in noisy areas, and people will pass on these homes simply due to noise issues”, what about all the people who didn’t realize there was a noise issue? Noise is often a sticky problem that may not be fixable, and so you are stuck until you can rent or sell it.
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