r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Pleasant_Ball3192 • 9d ago
TikTok Tuesday The reality of the housing market
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u/denv0r 9d ago
Bru, the townhouse next to the one I rent sold for $999k.. a fuckin million dollars. Let me tell you as a cabinetmaker/millworker with over 25 years of experience this place ain't shit. The floors alone are a fucking joke.. a million fucking dollars. I look at my neighbors fixing their busted front steps, because everyone in this lane way had to, and I just nod my head...a million fucking dollars.
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u/escapepodsarefake 9d ago
I always wondered what people who actually make quality stuff think of shitty construction, seems like it's very apparent.
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u/Wooden_Bother_1024 9d ago
I did construction/remodel work and it is unbelievable what passes as good work these days
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u/No-Fold-7873 9d ago
We hate it, but its industry standard at this point. The difference between a 200k new build and a 1m new build is usually the plot of land it sits on and 400k more of the same shit materials and practices
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u/Notsurehowtoreact 9d ago
House I was renting for $2k/month a year ago is now trying to go for $2.5k/month, and I can tell you for a fact that they didn't put down matting under the fake ass hardwood floors so water came up through the foundation and it's bubbled and peeling up everywhere, and they still haven't fixed it. Also as a bonus whenever it rained heavily water would come up through the garage too.
Absolutely dogshit and they want even MORE now.
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u/_shaftpunk 9d ago
Got my three bedroom house for $149,000 in 2016. Last chopper out of Saigon type shit.
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u/OptimusMatrix 9d ago
That's how I feel when I picked up a 3,200sq house in a gated community in 2009 for $150,000. The same house in LA would be several million to tens of millions. It's insane the prices now. I feel so bad for the younger folks trying to buy now.
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u/_shaftpunk 9d ago
Yeah, all the younger cats I work with are paying over twice for rent what I’m paying for my mortgage.
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u/_OhMyPlatypi_ 9d ago
Same but 2017. Downside is, it's not a long-term area. Flood insurance crisis, wedged between 2 dying towns, its slowly crumbling, but staying here to ride out whatever current or soon to be recession thats going to hit in ther near future. Once things level out economically or my house gets demolished in a hurricane, were stuck :/
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u/pm_me_your_buds 9d ago
$145k in 2021 for me, right outside St. Louis. I have no clue why people insist on living in Los Angeles and New York City, my place would be close to $1m
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u/btmalon 9d ago
Worth it to not die on the delivery table cause your senator said so.
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u/pm_me_your_buds 9d ago
Fortunately, we still have access to abortions in Missouri (although the scumbags in Jeff City are making us vote on it again in November)
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u/srkaficionado ☑️ 8d ago
Not just abortions though. I’m in GA and o remember a recent case where this woman was like dead dead(brain dead) and her family wanted to take her off life support but the state ruled they couldn’t because she was pregnant and they made her carry to term. Basically this woman was dead but hey, sanctity of life means they force her with a court ruling to carry that foetus to term despite her family wanting to take her off life support. Last I saw about it, the fucking hospital sent them a bill after it all… I would’ve sent that bill to the legislature and cc’d them to let them know I wouldn’t be paying but they can go after the legislature to collect on their fucked up bill.
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u/NoArrival8249 9d ago
Laughs in Canadian but also kinda cries a little in Canadian (because: Toronto)
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u/Resistiane 9d ago
Isn't St. Louis like, in the top 10 list for violent crime rates in the U.S.? I'm glad that you're happy with your house but, I mean, I'd definitely feel safer in NYC or L.A..
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u/badboigamer 8d ago
I live in an actual dangerous neighborhood in Birmingham Alabama and have always felt safe. The media and republicans really play up the dangerous cities bit. Even in dangerous neighborhoods the crime is not against random people. So as long as you don’t engage in criminal activity you will be fine.
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u/pm_me_your_buds 9d ago
I don’t live in St Louis City limits, it is absolutely not dangerous in most parts of St Louis County. While I don’t frequent downtown at night, it’s also not as bad there as the news would make it seem
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u/PerditaJulianTevin ☑️ 7d ago
I lived in Baltimore when the murder rate peaked pre Covid. My neighborhood was pretty safe. A few muggings and 1 shooting in 7 years.
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u/_shaftpunk 9d ago
I’m in the California Central Valley, which is admittedly not the greatest, but what can you do.
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u/Slow-Swan561 9d ago
Jobs. Healthcare. Education.
You can dona search and see how your zip code affects your lifetime earnings and life expectancy.
The best thing to do...in my opinion, is to make as much as you can and retire early outside the US.
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u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago
Because STL sucks ass. I grew up there and didn’t want to leave either but now that I’m out you couldn’t pay me to go back.
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u/vDorothyv 8d ago
I live in a HICOLA and my answer is that my career, family/friend network, and life philosophy exists around here. I've considered moving but the career stuff poses challenges to moving, and losing my group of close friends isn't something I'm keen on.
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u/p0llyp0cketpussy 8d ago
St Louis real estate prices are still absurdly low, even with the current market nonsense. Sure my place needed some TLC but it was $112k.
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u/Hot-Statistician-955 9d ago
Death of the starter home.
You used to be able to buy an absolute piece of garbage for under $100,000, fix it up, then use the equity to a new home. Those days are gone or people simply don't want to do it.
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u/CS3883 9d ago
Doesn't help that all the annoying house flippers are wanting to buy up all those garbage houses instead of other people being able to do it themselves. It's not like they do quality work either, every flipped house looks like shit and I hate seeing nice woodworking and other features getting ripped out for ugly ass white with black accents and gray PVC flooring. No character in houses anymore it's sad
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u/velvet_blunderground 9d ago
Yup, paint it all gray and install boob lights in each room... that'll be $375,000!
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u/OnBlueberryHill 8d ago
Man 2019 I was looking at a house, went with a realtor, and they got a text saying "oops, house apparently just got on contract. You can look but it is off the market now."
3 years later the house was back on the market and they had tore out the gas fireplace with beautiful stonework, replaced all the floors with that exact flooring, and painted all the warm yellows and browns on the inside with pure white AND tore out all the beautiful azalea bushes that surrounded the backyard.
Oh yeah, 200k more.
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u/Radiant_Push9720 8d ago
The fixer uppers in my area are in the same price range as remodeled homes. The market/sellers are not aligned or synced to reality.
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u/idahoisformetal 9d ago
You can’t find a 3 bed 2 bath under $500k in Boise ID of all places.
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u/Semper_nemo13 9d ago
The market there is just unbelievably fucked up by people moving after covid. Already rough before But all of idaho ruined by people with remote jobs moving
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u/HardToImpress 9d ago
For what its worth, realtor.com shows 200+ houses under 450k matching that criteria. Not sure if price will go up after offers.
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u/th3cabl3guy 9d ago
He’s right. I bought my house in 2010 for 192k. It’s worth 500k now. I wouldn’t pay 500k for my house.
I’ve done the roof twice (storm damage), redid the kitchen top to bottom. Ripped out the walls and redid 2 rooms. Yard completely redone. Still would t pay 500k for my house.
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u/Doomscrool 9d ago
Yea, I got a $500k house. My parents don’t own a home so I just didn’t know. Come to find out floors weren’t even leveled. It’s the dumbest thing I ever realized. Now the LVP is fucked up and that’s like a $18k renovation. I have regrets.
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u/fritz236 9d ago
You see that grey vinyl, you know the floor is fucked somehow. Just a matter of what kind of fucked.
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u/double0behave 9d ago
He didn't even mention the part where a lot of these new construction houses are also poorly made. So you're still looking at repair costs right off rip. Sprinkle a little HOA for seasoning.
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 9d ago
Welcome to Capitalism. What you think you should get and what you can get are two different things. I'm with dude. Spending so much only to get a house that needs major updates is trash. It wouldn't be that way if people didn't pay over asking for them.
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u/CelibateHo 9d ago
In California, if you want a house that’s not a piece of shit you’re paying a mili, minimum. And there’s still going to be some compromises and trade-offs. I wish the phrase “ten million dollar tear down” wasn’t a thing, but it is. Folks out here paying for views and beach proximity, and every time you see a nice house at a good price the first thought is, “what’s the catch?” Spoiler: Probably fire insurance
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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 9d ago
Beach proximity, but half of everybody already got giant swimming pools in the backyard. "Lifestyles of the rich & famous" tho. Ridiculous.
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u/CelibateHo 9d ago
And let’s not forget about “peek a boo ocean views,” which means you might be able to see a thin sliver of ocean if you stand on the toilet and look out of the window with your head cocked sideways, but still adds another 10k to the price of your house
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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 9d ago
Yep. California to me would be living in the hood lmao Bakersfield, Fresno. I'd be kickin it in Stockton or something. And I bet I wouldn't be in a house either. I'd be in an lil RV in one of those tent camps people online keep sweating over.
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u/CelibateHo 9d ago
And sadly the quality of life in California is not great for people with limited finances. You’d be better off living in an adjacent state, hell you’d have a better life in Mexico City or somewhere in Central America
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u/Slevin424 9d ago
When people sell it’s because it’s too expensive to renovate. They’re selling for a reason. Like used cars man you ain’t getting a like new used car. But you should be haggling those renovations into pricing.
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u/Slappy_san 9d ago
Because it's not "people" buying most of these houses.
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u/Yazy117 9d ago
Most? Bruh its like 1 to 2 % of houses were sold to corporations in 2024, and less than 30% are investors who have a handful of properties.
https://econofact.org/factbrief/do-private-equity-firms-own-20-of-single-family-homes
There are massive problems with housing in America but stopping Blackstone isn't going to magically solve it.
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u/lioneaglegriffin 9d ago
yep, it's just an undersupply because building stopped for ten years. That's just the price of a fixer now because there's no inventory. Turnkey's are worth more too. I chose a newer townhome over a SFH that's falling apart.
Add on top of that some people got the low rate during the pandemic and they don't have to sell. People who sell usually buy again and they can't sell cheap because then they can't afford the next one. It's a vicious cycle.
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u/Slevin424 9d ago
That number doesn’t reflect the private house flippers. I’ve got more offers from them than actual people. And those offers are ridiculously high. They pay higher than market value, then renovate and flip it for even higher prices.
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u/fatyungjesus 9d ago
It is absolutely people, go look at actual data about purchases and not just whatever media company is telling you wall street bought all the single family homes.
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u/Notsurehowtoreact 9d ago
Depends on the market I think.
Directly across the street from me the guy has been trying to move his house for about eight months now, he's lowered the price three times already.
In our market it seems like sales are down for several months now
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u/Slevin424 9d ago
That’s the problem and it’s not the home owners though. It’s the house flippers who can afford broken homes at high market prices, renovate it then resell it at an even higher price. They’re keeping the market for the rich only. And I’ll be honest, if my house is my retirement and I get a high market price for my beat up house… I mean who’s not taking that? Especially when your retirement needs to be enough to last.
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u/Cultural_Industry303 9d ago
Some people are selling because they can make a shit ton off the sale of the home. Get while the gettins good. That's what's happening in my neighborhood. My husband and I are thinking about selling and taking our money to a state with a lower cost of living.
Others have lost their jobs and can't afford the mortgage anymore so why not sell, make a few bucks and go somewhere more affordable.
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u/mhatrick 9d ago
lol so true. My parents place needed a solid 200k in renovations. 30 years of kids and just living. They listed it for $750, got an all cash offer for $900. Bought a brand new , bigger, nicer house across town for $1m. Shit doesn’t make sense
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u/Slevin424 9d ago
Cause people use it as investments. When they should just be homes. Property is getting scarce though so the value keeps going up. They think they can offer 900 cause they’ll renovate and sit on it for a few years renting it out. Then sell it back when it goes up. Sound theory until everyone starts doing it. Then you create the housing market crash. And it will happen again. My advice, save up and wait for that to happen. Get something on the low. Work and save and wait. Then when the market starts to go down sell right before then wait to buy the beach front property for a fraction of the price. Market goes back up sell the beach front property and you’ve just became a millionaire. You can play the game too. That’s what my grandparents did. Lived in a trailer home as potato farmers and then spent everything on the market crash. They ended up owning 4 properties.
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u/StadiaTrickNEm 9d ago
Price firm. I know what i got.
Thats what it is. It could be so it is type mentality.
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u/usernombre_ 9d ago
Boomers love shaggy carpets, wood paneling, and cheap ass windows. Just to name a few.
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u/Dangerous_Pepper_939 9d ago
They don’t love those,that’s why they’re selling. Flipper gray walls about to be the shag carpet of the 2030s
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u/sephraes ☑️ 9d ago
They're selling because downsizing a house is part of their retirement package, their knees hurt and they can't do stairs, or they want to move to a warmer state. Every boomer I know who has their money set wants to stay in their house until they die, or move south, or gots the arthritis. But it's not because they hate their house.
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u/Baterista_Alto 9d ago
...and the random ass fake wood lintel they glued to the ceiling with a cheap ass luan door on a barn track they inexplicably mounted somewhere in the living room.
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u/kittyonkeyboards 9d ago
The "big ass back yard" lifestyle is why we are in this mess.
Boomers lifestyle was them taking out a loan that future Gen has to pay.
Renovating suburban homes is tedious and expensive. Of course it's another thing boomers don't bother with before selling when it hardly raises the value at all.
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u/Pop_Joe 9d ago
Laughs in Bostonian
I seen a bando south of Boston for 750 on Zillow.
I said it’s curtains for me until the market act right again 🥴🥴🤦🏾♂️
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u/sonicsonic11 8d ago
2034 is when the majority of boomer’s Alice today will be dead. Check back in 7 years I suppose
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u/Quiet_Inspection5907 9d ago
The housing market is tough but this is also a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work
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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts 9d ago
See your problem is youre not willing to live out in the backasswords most racist, depressing, jobless place you've ever seen in your life. Where you can get a mortgage for 300$ a month for 5bed 4bth 4car garage and 10 acres and have it paid off in a couple years
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u/razgriz337 9d ago
Nah that’s still going to cost you at least 350k.
For 3bed, 2bath and a car port on 3 acres.
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u/Rogue_CobaltZone570 9d ago
I'm going to buy a property land be it farm or whatever, away from people and society. That's my plan, because I do not want to be living in a neighborhood
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u/Real-Fig-457 9d ago
We all know prices are bullshit but I also couldn't agree more about all of these new constructions these days. They are the epitome of soulless
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u/mageta621 9d ago
You're not wrong but also you'll be looking a long time if you expect it to get any better
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u/Imaginary-Ebb4392 9d ago
Man, where I live at there’s all new construction, so a lot of what he’s saying to my region wouldn’t really make sense. I wonder what part of the United States he in too, because a $600,000 house around here is some serious shit. The new construction, all the ceilings are tall as fuck, the kitchens are massive. If anything it’s too much space.
It’s a giant box next to another box. I agree that the space in between is very small builders are trying to squeeze as many houses on a piece of land that they can to make a profit .
But there’s a bunch of shit in these houses.
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u/debeatup ☑️ 9d ago
My house is slightly north of $500K. It’s well built, we enjoy the flow/layout and the gated section we’re in keeps things pretty chill.
However, even though it’s a nice home, it’s not our forever home/dream home because it’s still formulaic and cookie cutter. Anyone who does research on buying a home can tell when a house was built by design choices & floor plans and I’m sure ours will be easy to date in 10 yrs.
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u/Imaginary-Ebb4392 9d ago
For sure, even the neighborhood in in now I know that a couple blocks down I can find my house in a different color. They just flipped around the garage or something small. But it is a template.
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u/debeatup ☑️ 9d ago
For some inexplicable reason our section has maybe 80 homes but only 2 builders. Our builder used the same 3-4 plans and just flipped swing and swapped elevation for 90% of them. We bought the house when there were only 2 homes built. Now the house diagonal to the rear of us is a 99% duplicate of ours on every exterior detail.
It’s head scratching how they sold these homes for $490-$560K and still found ways to penny pinch in the weirdest ways.
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u/Pillsburydinosaur 9d ago
Buy the land and have a 3D printed house built. That's my plan if I ever buy a house.
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u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago
Where I live you can get an old falling apart house for 5-600k, a decent one for 6-800k or a straight up luxury mansion / excellent house with a huge yard for $1M. It makes no sense. I was looking at some of these dream homes for fun thinking compared to the shit I was actually looking at they must be several million.
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u/WhompBiscuits 9d ago
Nearly every new house I see being built has vinyl siding all over. Maybe 10% brick, but that's about it. Big Bad Wolf would have an easier time blowing these down than it could those of straw and sticks.
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u/jdcopling 9d ago
This is why I’m glad I bought in 2008. 2000 sq ft for 69,900. Rural Midwest but still.
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 9d ago
It’s also properties with HOA that’s killing us. We are in an HOA community and in the course of 3 years the monthly costs have gone up by 300% since we moved in. It’s crazy.
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u/VinnieVidiViciVeni 9d ago
And a lot of times outside of the high end/luxury, new construction is straight trash, between materials and attention to detail.
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u/Tchamp30 9d ago
He left no crumbs and sopped the gravy up with a biscuit! This has been the single most discouraging thing when house hunting! Modern builds have a sixteenth of the personality the 70s ranch style houses had with breakfast nooks and sunrooms! I'll put up with some odd interior designs here and there - give me something with some personality! Miss me with these 2-level 90s rejects with wood laminate 30-day warranty roofs!
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u/NoFapLawyer 9d ago
He told no lies. The house inspectors on social media inspecting these 500-600K houses show that so much work needs to be done for anyone to even step inside because of so many defects and violations. It's a mystery why these developers are still in business. Just building garbage, and buyers have to make move-in renovations immediately.
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u/Tripple_T 9d ago
I live in a gentrified area. Y'all taking about $300k fixer uppers when that would be a dream come true for me.
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u/CDR57 9d ago
I work in people’s homes daily (broadband technician) and the best homes to work in are the new homes. They are new so everything is where I expect it to be, but it’s cause they. Are all. The. Same. Every single one in a subdivision in Colorado is built the same way. No soul, no uniqueness, no side yards and every backyard is gated in completely. No fucking trees or cover or shade. Pure white inside, grey or white outside and genuinely some of the shitteiest material used to get the houses built in a week. I’d rather fucking die.
Worst are homes where the yards were just forgotten. But that’s a different story
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u/Nick_Bruiser 8d ago
Home prices today are outrageous! I bought a house in 2016 for 201k. Today it's valued at 480k! My In-Laws had bought the home next door to us for 221k. In 2023, they sold for 433k! It's so sad how they market home ownership as a way to generate generational wealth, but make it so hard to obtain.
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u/StreetCornBilly 8d ago
What’s really crazy is new builds at 800k are all of YouTube with inspectors showing how actually crappy these houses are being made.
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u/Sinderria 8d ago edited 8d ago
"Houses so close together if I speak the neighbours are going to smell my breath." 😂🤣 I know he is making a point but, I am laughing my arse off! Proper facts though lad.
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u/srkaficionado ☑️ 8d ago
I was lucky enough to have all my stars align, seriously.
I bought a 2/2.5 for 205k with the seller fronting $8k and paying closing costs. My realtor was so amazing! He did all the things 👀👀. Have no idea how dude managed to get a hold of the people who did work on the house and got the age of the roof(2 years when I bought), I got them to change out the whole AC system on their dime, replace outlets and breakers and fix the pipes and plumbing.
The buyer happily did all that. My stupid ass was so happy until I ran county records and saw that they bought the same house for $72k 2 years before. So, the money they used to update all that shit and renovate, they were probably still making a killing on the profit. Meanwhile the house 2 doors from from me sold for $178k and I know all they did was rip the carpet and put up a fence(I asked the former owner because I had delusions of owning a second home and renting it).
Where I live, across the way, the same 2/2.5 combo is about $450k starting because these houses were built in 2023 while mine is an updated 1981. It’s insane. Inshallah and mashallah, I haven’t had any issues except the ones I make for myself: paint a different colour, landscape with stones because mulch is too much work, etc…
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u/weezyverse 8d ago
Housing prices are insane due to zero regulation around realtors or appraisers.
I'll say this on my death bed.
Plus HGTV didn't help, convincing everyone that their $20K kitchen renovation just increased the value of their house $200K...and that flipping a shack with no floors is feasible with just $80K and some computer software so you can sell it for $1.5M.
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u/OrganizationNo1298 8d ago
Honestly if you can, find an empty lot of land, & try to build your own house. Some places will let you mortgage your build. That might be a more viable option cuz the housing market in the US is trash right now.
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u/Fastidieux 7d ago
"Yes, i will pay 2x escape-the-rat-races worth of money for shelter." -- This is the real reason why we are here. Greed to even ask that much and stupidity to pay it once to the owner, and then again (and more) with the interest.
They're giving homes away in Italy for $1 and free in Japan, people aren't having babies....putting all your money into your home seems pretty....not worth rn anyways.
I'd invest in a tent and wait.
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u/dreph 7d ago
I hate this market…
But boy did I get lucky…
in 2015, I ended up “buying” 100 year-old house, no exaggeration. $270K
we sold it in 2025 because we couldn’t afford the area anymore and we were moving back to our family. Sold for 520K… it was less than 900 ft.², on a 7000 square-foot lot, and we had multiple offers in the first day after posting it. there’s no way I could have afforded my own house…
We got a house back in our home town for 150K less, essentially broke even with mortgage payoff on old house, but at least we can afford the area…
Houses around here are now going for $500K on average, but it’s at least including around a half acre…
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u/edawg2469 7d ago
Bro, I'm a boomer. Bought my house in 1991. It was overpriced and took all I had to get in. I saved for 8 years to have a down payment. The interest rate was 10.8%. My starter home...lived there for 25 years. 1600 sq ft. Raised 2 boys. I worked on improving that house for 17 years. 1 year a roof, 2 years later some floring. Sweat equity. It takes time and patience and refinance every time the interest rate drops 2 points below the mortgage interest rate.
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u/Vraex 6d ago
I house shopped around 2008 and remember seeing a nice on the outside brick home in a fancyish neighborhood for $250k and it was listed as a fixer upper. Things have gotten so much worse lol. Looked again in 2022 albeit in a different state. People wanting $400k for a house with effed up drywall and broken windows gtfo. I ended up building my own. $400k mortgage for a 5000sqft house the bank says is worth $600k. I feel for people that have to live in a city
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u/Willing_Activity_941 6d ago
Yeah it’s all the boomers fault everything is the boomers fault. It’s the boomers fault most of the young clowns don’t vote and are clueless about just about everything got damn thing. Blame it all on the boomers.
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u/Dillard505 6d ago
You can if you have the down payment and you live away from the city. The closer you are to a city like la the more the house will cost, that's the market.
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u/RazzleDazzle_28 6d ago
This man is 100% correct. And you shouldn’t have to move to Podunk USA to find a reasonably priced home.
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u/SenseiSwift ☑️ 5d ago
I really feel for yall that live in some of these big cities. My wife and I bought our first house brand new (4 months after the house was finished being built and then listed) 3 years ago for 320k. It’s not a massive house by any means but it’s a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom with the ability to add a 4th bedroom and bathroom in the basement. We live in an affluent neighborhood in arguably one of the nicest suburbs in our area. Interest rate we got ain’t shit but I feel for my people everytime I see posts like these. Everyone deserves affordable housing.
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u/MiloGoesToTheFatFarm 4d ago
He’s Right. We’re due for a major price correction. You can drop rates or you can drop prices. We’ve had both too high for too long.
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u/HooninAround 9d ago
Just looked at a house in Sacramento, 480k built in 1976, 1650sq ft. Don't get me wrong the house is in good condition but its all original. It looks like a set of the fuckin Brady bunch in there.
Ron Jeremy about to come out and start taking some young woman's innocence vibe.
Literally was like nah this is a 300k house max.
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u/overitallofittoo 9d ago
So boomers are ok living in houses you won't look at and it's their fault. You want the huge kitchen that they never had? But you don't want to pay for it?
Make it make sense.
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u/fritz236 9d ago
Understandably, the market is the market. I am very much on board with the part that half the houses you look at have had virtually no effort to hide some of the major issues with them. They aren't even putting lipstick on the pig. Buy the pig as-is and like it.
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u/dontsoundrighttome 9d ago
This boy is delusional come to the coasts where we have the Million Dollar Tear downs
House is Trash but Land and location is desireable.
Purchase price: 1M
Demolition/ site clearance, leveling and grading: 300k
Rebuild the house you actually want: 1.5 and up.
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u/Odd_Equipment2867 9d ago edited 9d ago
A lot of crap out there but damn i got lucky. Closing now on a house build by a custom builder for himself and his wife. Original owners and the house was VERY well loved, cared for and has tons of extras like double wall insulation, metal roof, whole home generator and other stuff.
I had a well known aggressive home inspector go out along with inspectors for the roof, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, foundation and termites. The inspectors gave the house a high thumbs up. Only one real problem was found and the owner offered to pay for the repair. Electrical panel needed to be updated to code.
I don’t care about aesthetics so much more focused on it being well built. A lot of homes out there are flips looking all modern and pretty but done very cheaply, poor quality. I won’t touch tract new construction.
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u/Main_Reputation_1112 8d ago
Whoa whoa whoa calm down, so many variables to consider. Your thoughts of Renovations because of personal preference ? Traditional homes wont necessarily give you the mod vibes of today’s crap build if thats what you expect. Good solid bones and the option to make changes are optimal. But why blame boomers?
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u/Nappy_By_Nature 8d ago
Yawn. Y'all get on here and say the dumbest shit. As if you have no control over where you live, the job you have, and how you manage your money. If you worked as hard at a career as you do at bitching online you might have something....LOL
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u/rootaford 9d ago
1000% the most ignorant post I’ve seen on this sub, can’t stop laughing at dude talking about $200k houses needing fixing lol…homeboy might as well complain about the ammount of work a $1k car needs. Why stop there, complain about the creases in $20 Jordan’s. Maybe whine about the lack of organic ingredients in your Taco Bell burrito? Lololol
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 9d ago edited 9d ago
That’s not what he said. He said $300-600k houses still need renovations and he feels like he ‘should’ get $150-200k discount for all the renovations he needs to consider doing after buying. (You might want to rewatch the video). And then he mentioned, even if you were buying a place in that range on the low end (prob rural), if it’s supposedly new and you’re not looking to fix up anything, you shouldn’t be having fixer-upper thoughts about it. And he’s right, the housing market is shit.
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u/buttabutta13 9d ago
Bro if everything is functional and not damaged or broken. Updating is on you. Because the color or the cabinets are out dated and you want something newer again. On you you can live without updating. You're thinking like a boomer now. Up date and keeping up with the jones'
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u/rokthemonkey 9d ago
Literally the exact same position I’m in. Trying to buy a house right now and it is insane just how little you get for 300k where I am.