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

In life, and in home buying, it's best to operate on the philosophy that what can go wrong will go wrong . . . and it'll go wrong later than you anticipated. We'd been warned that closing dates on any type of property — new or old — can get pushed back, so we made sure that we had an extra month on our lease as padding. With homes in the process of being built, those delays can be exponentially longer. Thankfully, we were able to close and move in before our final lease was up, but you can bet we regretted not having a Plan C.