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Given it’s your first place, do you really want to have to move in and potentially immediately have to do some big works when you’ll have very little cash reserves to do them properly? Asides from the money side, that’s likely to be quite stressful.
When we moved into our place we had to replace the roof (we knew about this and got roofers to quote to knock money off) and then redo several rooms which unexpectedly and almost immediately started pissing water evertywhere. Good now, but could really have done without the stress or financial strain as there were other things we’d have liked to fix first. Looking back, less work when we were trying to figure things out would have been a nicer experience.