How are people affording all this hardscaping

[Anonymous]

Just got quotes on redoing front stairs, walkway, patio in flagstone and am floored (no pun intended).

[Anonymous]

We make $600k a year. Seriously, that’s what it is. Writing a check for $20 or $50k is just no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Their mortgage interest rate is 3% so they have extra money hanging around, but can't afford to move and get a 7% rate.

[Anonymous]

What was the quote? We are just about to start this process and I doubt we will be able to afford what we want either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We make $600k a year. Seriously, that’s what it is. Writing a check for $20 or $50k is just no big deal.

Well DH makes 750K a year and even for us writing a check for 50K was a big deal! But yes, that's how we afforded hardscaping. It sucked and the only reason we bit the bullet is because of drainage issues.

[Anonymous]

We DON'T make 600k a year, but we do budget for 2.5% of our house price every year for repairs. So 20k on our 800k home. A new deck is like 80k, new roof was 15k, new ACs, new windows, fixing our brick walkway was $4,500. We can't afford to do everything at once. We split our basement remodel to 3 years so that we weren't spending so much at once.

[Anonymous]

Been living in the same house for over 20 years, bought at at early 2000s prices. Refinanced once to get a sub-3% interest rate but haven’t taken on a big mortgage. We couldn’t afford much in the way of upgrades for the first ten years, but now that our salaries have increased and kids are older but house payment is the same, we have wiggle room. Chose to spend that wiggle room on upgrades instead of moving to a bigger house.

[Anonymous]

They have more money.

[Anonymous]

Get more quotes Goshen Enterprises and Garden Paths Landscaping are two good ones.

[Anonymous]

We're very wealthy.

[Anonymous]

This is why we live in a rowhouse! We have a beautiful brick walkway in the front, but it's not a long distance.

[Anonymous]

Two years ago got a bunch of quotes for patio redo and decided I'd rather sit on the grass. It's worked OK so far.

[Anonymous]

You make it back and reduced care costs, and resale value.

[Anonymous]

How much are we talking op?

[Anonymous]

we had an estimate for a screened in porch for $100k. We have combined income of 400K and decided we just could not (did not want to) swing it. Can't have it all.