re: America had a love affair with ‘fixer-upper’ homes. That may be over

Then why weren't all the letters capitalized?

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A boomer GC would have known what the hell he was doing and wouldn't have fricked you over.

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Perhaps. This guy seemed like your run of the mill Gen X loser.

I’ve built a number of new homes and flipped a bunch more.

People see the H&G station, thinking they can do the same. I can walk into a home and tell if the previous owner did the job.

A couple who does basic TLC for a house can make a different (painting and shite).

But once people decide they’re chip & Joanna Gaines and start doing major work involving wiring and/or drywall, it all goes to shite. Ask me how I know

Bingo.

I'm 42, a plumber, and pretty handy with most other things. I need to downsize TBH. Bought my current house (2700 sq ft) in 2015. My and my fiance split in 2020 and I've been living here by myself ever since. It's kind of dumb TBH. I don't have kids. It's just me.

So yeah, I've looked around Lexington.

Any fixer upper that is appropriately priced as such is in a dogshit area of town.

There are fixer uppers in decent /nice parts of town, but they're priced like they're damn near new builds. All because of their location. Why the hell would I pay premium for a fixer upper?

I don't mind paying extra for a good location. Trustworthy/friendly/good neighbors and crime free area is absolutely worth it. But if Im going to pay what they want for a house that needs an overhaul in those areas here (and I'm sure it's the same elsewhere in America) why wouldn't I just go get a new build and be done with it?

I can do the work myself, and even then it's just financially idiotic with what they're asking for those kinds of houses.



Also, stop building either condos/apartments or McMansions for every new development. Boomers complain about younger generations not buying starter homes ......they aren't building any.

Your only option to buy a 3 bdrm 1 bath no garage 1500 sq ft home is to live in the hood these days. Decent white folks arent signing up for that bullshite.

Young folks will live in a starter home and have things fixed up. It's that it's so cost prohibitive for them to do it, and they have to live in trashy arse ghettos to do it. Losing equity notwithstanding, most just say frick it and rent an apartment or condo in a nicer area.

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Head line should read...contractors have made it too cost prohibitive for people to buy and renovate an old home.

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What? You don’t have to pay the contractors. You can do the work yourself.

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number 1 thing we wanted was a gas stove, with a vent to the outside.

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When you say “a vent to the outside” are you talking about the vent in the hood above the stove? If so, yeah, the ones that just circulate through a metal filter are almost useless. That said, we have a gas oven/stove in an island, and it only has one of those worthless ones that pop up from the counter. We use it a lot and never really have an issue with smoke.

Well he's right, vast majority want move-in-ready these days, with updated finishes, appliances, smart-home ready, etc. Doesn't matter if it's an entry-level home either, they basically want to buy something with as little work as possible and the promise they'll have to do as little continued maintenance too.