We had cedar siding on our last house. The downsides: It needs to be repainted or restained about every 5-6 years or so. The woodpeckers liked it and would sometimes peck holes in it. For some reason wasps seemed to be attracted to it also. We had cedar trim in our first house. It was a tract home. There was some tannin bleed through on some of the nearby houses. I don't recall how the builder fixed it.

Maintenance intensive and not as durable as the old growth cedar was. No way would I put it on anything of mine. For 100K, I'd do brick instead.

Our last house, built in the 80's, was cedar. Like hollysprings said, it was a maintenance nightmare! I would never recommend it to anyone.

Wow sounds like somebody doesn't want to use those materials. We did all Hardi on our house including trim, soffits etc. and it was less than 10K installed for a 2200 sq ft house with garage. Granted we do have some stone( 30%), but unless your house is huge I can't see how it could possibly be that much.

We are in a lower cost area of the country though (TX) and that price didn't include painting it, which I don't remember what the outside cost was exactly, but was in the 4 digits range.

I had cedar on our old house and had the same experience as others including wood peckers.

Are you talking about cedar clapboards or cedar shingles?

" The downsides: It needs to be repainted or restained about every 5-6 years or so. The woodpeckers liked it and would sometimes peck holes in it. For some reason wasps seemed to be attracted to it also."

Yes, yes and yes.
This was our experience also... could not wait to replace it.

Renovator8- I was thinking of the clapboards. I just came across Buffalo Lumber . They have a product that is finger jointed cedar to use for clapboards. They prime it and put on one coat of paint with a final coat to be done after installation. It then is warranted for 25 years against delamination and rot. What do you think?

Read the fine print, wood with a 25 yr warranty will more than likely require a laundry list of requirements at exact times to be covered