What millennial and gen z buyers love?

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Anonymous wrote:Getting ready to sell. What do they want? Hard scape? Type of stove? Rentable apartment in basement? Shaker cabs? Anyone?

No hardscape. Nothing makes me more upset when viewing houses than seeing a paved over yard that I'm going to have to pay to unpave because I don't hate nature.

I don't care about the stove as long as it's not ancient.

Not interested in rentable basement. I don't want tenants.

I googled shaker cabinets and they just look like regular cabinets? Just please no grey or beige.

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Anonymous wrote:They love not being stereotyped and lumped together into one giant bloc!

Too late! You’re too big a generation

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Anonymous wrote:The same things everyone wants - everything in good working condition so they don’t move in and have to do a bunch of work/repairs right away. Millennials are working age adults, they probably have little kids too, so we don’t have time to fix holes in the walls and barely-working appliances.

They are lazy plus don’t know how to do repairs. They have a ton of free time to do it. They are remote or WFH most days. So yes fix it up.

But don’t pretend it is a time issue they barely work.

Ok Grandpa.

grandpa would know how to fix up the house, though.

But they don't. Boomers defer all maintenance and don't update kitchens, bathrooms etc every 10 years like they are supposed to .

I’m not a boomer and there is no way I’m updating every bathroom and the kitchen every 10 years.

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I’m amused by the people in this thread that think millennials and gen z even have a chance at a lower priced dated home that they can update. Those are scooped right up by developers who flip or tear down.

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Anonymous wrote:The same things everyone wants - everything in good working condition so they don’t move in and have to do a bunch of work/repairs right away. Millennials are working age adults, they probably have little kids too, so we don’t have time to fix holes in the walls and barely-working appliances.

They are lazy plus don’t know how to do repairs. They have a ton of free time to do it. They are remote or WFH most days. So yes fix it up.

But don’t pretend it is a time issue they barely work.

Ok Grandpa.

grandpa would know how to fix up the house, though.

Grandpa had a stay at home wife to manage all the kids and running the household, and then spent his evenings and weekends tinkering with house projects so he could further avoid any other domestic duties.

So I guess yay. He could put up drywall, but never changed a diaper.

Grandpa is probably in his late 50s or 60s now, so is Gen X - your image of "grandpa" is a little off.

Well I’m a millennial with young kids (under 8) and their grandpas on both sides are in their early to mid 70s. Most people in their late 50s have kids a few years out of college, maybe late 20s, and are are still in the workforce, not downsizing their homes.

Are you time traveling from the 1890s? People in their 50s in DC have way younger kids. I was at the Back to School Night at Winston Churchill last week and TONs of dads between 60-70. Plenty of moms looked 60.

several of my friends had kids between 40 and 55.

Is Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin downsizing?

My friends kindergarten class had a few 60 -65 year old dads, second wives and/or trophy wives.

I dropped my daughter at College last week and my 64 year old cousin and her 74 husband dropping their freshman kid off at same time. And guess what plenty of 70 something dads dropping kids off.

Harrison Ford is 80 and his kid just graduated college.

How are people in DC getting married at 38 having kids 39, 42 and 45 ever downsizing?

Plus college is going to be 100k a kid very shortly. How does a 60 year old man with two kids in college retire?

Well that was kind of the point I was making. Someone before me said that “grandpa” was late 50s/early 60s. And I’d say at most his kids are in their 20s. Meaning a 59 year old having kids mid-30s or so.

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Anonymous wrote:The same things everyone wants - everything in good working condition so they don’t move in and have to do a bunch of work/repairs right away. Millennials are working age adults, they probably have little kids too, so we don’t have time to fix holes in the walls and barely-working appliances.

They are lazy plus don’t know how to do repairs. They have a ton of free time to do it. They are remote or WFH most days. So yes fix it up.

But don’t pretend it is a time issue they barely work.

Ok Grandpa.

grandpa would know how to fix up the house, though.

But they don't. Boomers defer all maintenance and don't update kitchens, bathrooms etc every 10 years like they are supposed to .

Where did you get the idea that everyone is supposed to update kitchens and bathrooms every 10 years???

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PP, are you insane? Do you know how expensive kitchen and bath renovations are?

MAYBE every 20 years is appropriate. If a family is in a house for 40 years (from age 40 to 80), they usually update a few things when they move in or over the ensuing couple of years.

Then in 20 years when they have more money and the style is a little outdated, they can remodel. When they die 20 years later, a new buyer comes in and starts the process again.

[Anonymous]

Millennial here. My generation is very devoted to their dogs. I'm trying to persuade my parents to put in a dog washing station in their laundry room before they sell.

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i have a dog washing station in my house. it is called the shower! cute on tv shows, stupid for day to day life.

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Anonymous wrote:The next generation is going to be dogs. No one is having kids because they are too much trouble and expense. That is why there will be a huge dropoff in college in 2025 and while elementary schools in many areas are shrinking.
In 40 years the US will be like Japan with no replacement people just anthropomorphized dogs named Bailey and Doodles.

Well the human kids are going to get a great deal on housing, then. Lucky them!

They won't need it The reason there is a housing shortage now is that people are not marrying until much later in life or not at all. People stay single for much longer and need a one bedroom apartment all to themselves until they are 35 or forever. it is all the people living alone that is creating the demand for housing.