It becomes apart of your personality. You’re always talking about home repairs / home improvements with friends and family. It also consumes a lot of your mental energy because you’re always thinking of to do items and running to home depot and lowes all the time. If I was in an apartment or renting a house I could probably spend more time thinking of ways to make more money instead of taking care of my house.
Sounds like you bought an older home. I have had multiple homes over the years, both as primary residences and rentals. Something I've learned is to always buy new. It saves me many headaches.
I love our house. We rent part of it out (house hacking), do all sorts of money saving improvements, and yeah it’s a part of our life (our biggest financial investment) but it just like everything you put a lot of energy into, it’s a pro or a con given what you make of it and the joy or burdens it creates for you. Mindset, perspective, and how good a job you did in making that investment.
Same here! R you short or long term renting out the home?
WOW nothing better than giving your money to HECKIN cool landlord for an EXPOSED BRICK apartment. Think of all the money you could be saving by giving it to a based landlord!
But is spending your time thinking of ways to make money really an upgrade?
Enlightened
So fucking true
I mean yeah, apartment by nature means less work. But goddamn do I love the satisfaction of a freshly mowed and edged lawn. Then you get other projects around the house to tackle (bonus if you can use power tools). Plus I make enough that if I can't figure something out or don't trust myself, I just hire the help and poof problem gone. Home Depot is quickly climbing the ranks of favorite stores to me. It's not Costco level yet but it's climbing. And one final point, homes hold their value unlike apartments so in a way you don't need to giant value as the land and all of the improvements you're doing to the place result in a value ad.
but not usually a net value gain. unless you got a steal on a pos flipper in a good neighborhood. you'll be lucky to get 50% of the value back of cost of the improvement.
at best you'll get to enjoy your improvement and get the value out that way
All the descriptions are true. But I don't feel it's bad. I really enjoy designing and working on my house - plant bushes, landscaping, interior improvements, etc.
+1
New home after Covid are built like shit. Low quality work. They’re built like American cars with planned obsolescence. They’ll need costly repairs soon anyway. Cracked pavements on houses built in 2021 in Austin ask for like 20k$ to fix….
So much data to support this position
thats if you bought more home than you can afford i enjoy home improvements. family time together. and i have a life outside of personal projects
Maybe hire someone to fix it correctly so it's not a constant problem. Unless you bought a project home it shouldn't be in a state of constant disrepair.
It is hard to even hire someone. You have to call 5 people, get estimates, review ratings or referrals.. not really straightforward.
You have to make five phone calls? You’re right, sounds impossible