How much did your new home cost you in repairs and upgrades
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Anonymous
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Ooh.
Let's see... 10K on painting (our choice) 7K on tree removal for hazardous trees 4.5K on electrical upgrade 1K on radon remediation 2K on landscaping 500 on toilet repair/replacement that we DIYed with help from FIL 1.5K on new washer and dryer 1K on new utility sink + install 1K on project to repair door threshold to utility room 1K on door hardware replacements and new lock sets 2K on new door hardware for all interior doors that DH has yet to install Furniture expenses are probably at about 20K. Probably at least 2K on misc. Home Depot stuff (smaller repairs, new tools to do things, small one off purchases, etc...). We still need to do a bathroom, which we will do as basic as possible. Also need to make some minor repairs. Also want to do some additional landscaping. |
Anonymous
| New build. 2019 purchase, late 2020 occupancy (thanks COVID). Base price just over $1.1M. Approximately $200K in upgrades/changes. $50K post occupancy to fit out home theatre. No significant repairs. |
Anonymous
The chimney recap was also like 25% of what the quotes we are getting. |
Anonymous
Such cheap cabinets but expensive countertop? Did you just do new doors or something? |
Anonymous
| Around $10k when we bought a 1920’s home on the Hill with a lot of deferred maintenance. |
Anonymous
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Bought a 1940s fixer. The AC broke a month after we moved in (during summer). Replaced the hvac and then 3 years later did an addition/major reno with lots of duct changes and ended up doing dual systems. So had to replace it again.
Argh. The timing sucked, but in the scheme of things it was about 5k lost (in 250k) of upgrades. I was mostly upset about the waste of it, but we were able to donate the old unit. |
Anonymous
| *the “old” new unit that is |
Anonymous
WHAT? I just remodeled a small house for 20k 
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Anonymous
Haha! So true |
Anonymous
NP. The higher end cabinet at IKEA will probably run you around 5k. |
Anonymous
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First year: refinished wood floors and replaced some windows = $10K; relined chimney which required removing old terracotta lining = $6K. Miscellaneous plumbing and electric issues = $2K. So, all but the plumbing was optional.
Second year: frozen burst pipe in finished garage required redoing plumbing and drywall = $6K. Not optional unless we wanted to lose functionality of that space. Third year: bathroom reno = $20K; painting = $1K. All optional. Anticipate having to replace HVAC in year 4 or 5. Won’t be optional 
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Anonymous
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Bought a 2006-built house in 2020
Year 1: Roof $8k Smoke detectors: $200 Replacing ugly ceiling fan with flush mount fixture so our four poster bed wouldn’t get hit: $200 That’s it for year 1, I think, not counting the decorator stuff. |
Anonymous
Yes, some of these are crazy, but it's par for the course when you buy a house. It's the non-sexy stuff that no one talks about when buying, and no one tells you just how much repairs ACTUALLY cost, especially if you hire it out. I like to say things in your house are in 3 states: hasn't broken yet, about to break, or broken. A lot of things people listed don't HAVE to be done the first year anyway. We bought a fixer in the closest and safest neighborhood we could afford. It's now worth nearly $200K more than we paid. We do one elective project a year, and keep savings on hand for emergency repairs. In the first year, we spent $7K on our badly neglected chimney (we had a lot of flues), and $17K on roof, insulation, and gutters. We were told by the inspector we had "4-5 years" left on the roof (turns out we didn't, it was actively leaking), the insulation was in horrible shape, and even with gutter guards, animals, were still nesting in them. |
Anonymous
Pp, who did your bathroom for $20k? That’s a bargain |
Anonymous
That’s all? |