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Spring House Hunt

Finding that right home goes beyond skin deep

By Jay Fitzgerald

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 01, 2012

It might as well be called the Home Buyers Fatal Attraction Syndrome - falling in love so much with a specific feature of a house that buyers ignore or don’t see problems lurking in the corner or hiding behind walls. “People too often fall in love with the aesthetics and not the hidden structure of a house,’’ said Padraig O’Beirne, owner of Sudbury Home Improvements and Construction. “If you love something so much, you have to ask yourself, ‘What would it cost if it has to be fixed or replaced?’’’

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