What I Wish I Had Known Before Buying a Brand-New Condo

With a new home, what you walk into on move-in day won't be exactly the same as what you're living in a year later. Houses, and condo buildings, need to "settle," and that only happens with time. Like clockwork, at the end of every new season, we'd notice cracks in our windowsills and along our crown molding. Certain doors would all of a sudden be tighter and harder to open. The best advice we got to minimize these subtle but sometimes frustrating changes was to install a home humidifier and use it diligently.