Buying a home? Plan to live there at least five years

Photo Courtesy Pexels.com I’m noticing an alarming trend in my neighborhood, an abundance of newly built homes for sale after only a few years of occupancy. I get that sometimes people have to move due to life circumstances like job relocation, financial hardship, bad neighbors (anyone have the neighbor that decorates their lawn for every occasion-Christmas, Halloween-okay Houston Texans games…? Really?!). I live in a new master planned community near Houston, TX (thankfully we weren’t victims of Hurricane Harvey). My home was completed in 2014 and many of the homes being put up for sale were built around the same time plus or minus a few years. My builder hasn’t even completed selling all of the lots in my subdivision yet there are at least 8-9 houses for sale. My husband thinks that maybe people are leaving due to the high property taxes (Texas has no income tax so homeowners largely fund the government and services). As a former apartment dweller, I definitely reco