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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millennials here are proving my point, y’all are lazy!![/quote]

Anyone can take down wallpaper and re-paint. That’s not bad, just time-consuming. You can also learn a lot about relatively minor stuff from YouTube videos, like installing a new kitchen faucet. But are you going to do your entire kitchen renovation yourself? Are you going to demo, hang those cabinets, take the right accurate measurements to get the granite guys to cut you the right size counter top, and while you’re at it demo your current flooring and then install your new floors? Are you going to rip out and then install a brand new toilet in your half bath to replace the one the previous owners hadn’t touched in 30 years?? It’s not “lazy,” it’s just being stretched financially to where you can’t afford to make hire contractors to make big repairs right away. [/quote]

+1. I am a millennial, we bought a house that needed absolutely everything last May.

Let me walk you through our timeline for just the kitchen -
Closed in May - husband and I went back to work after very generous parental leave with our first at this point so things got hairy for a few weeks
Ordered cabinets in early June
Ordered appliances in July
Appliances arrived in August, but oops, the wrong dishwasher got sent
Hardwood floors refinished in mid-August because of scheduling issues on his end
Correct appliances arrived in September
Cabinets showed up first week of October
GC came by mid October to throw the cabinets in - one was broken upon delivery
Ordered countertops mid October, installed early November
Had our second kid May of '23
Broken cabinet replacement showed up June of '23 (yes, 8.5 months later)
GC came back out in July to install the kickplates, cabinet pulls, and final cabinet

This is also with my dad being a GC so we were using his contacts - paying a fair price but at least the people showed up when they said they would. The cost of labor has gone up astronomically in the last few years. We blew the ballpark budget, even with being more Home Depot people than like, Restoration Hardware. And, we lived with my parents during this entire process and paid them a friends & family rate for living there, ha.  Where are people living during a gut reno?

I cannot begrudge anyone for not wanting to take this on. That is just one project. We've also moved walls, reno'd one of the bathrooms, had to replace the boiler, upgrade the electric, re-insulated the house, replaced the roof, had chimney repairs, had to replace the front stairs, etc. This is before we did things we want to do, like fix the landscaping, get a new couch, and all the other crap you need to buy that comes with living in a new space.

With 2 kids, 2 "big jobs", and everything else that you need to do, like getting the car fixed it is a LOT. My husband is handy and spends a lot of time around the house, but we also now have 2 under 2 so it's like, what gives?

Anyone seriously arguing that millenials are lazy for not wanting your grandma's house is out to lunch.

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:roll: We're arguing that nobody needs a gut reno like yours, with new cabinets, new appliances, moving walls, and a bathroom reno right out of the gate, like you did. Nice for you that you swung hiring people to do this, and props for the humblebrag.

But the millennials who can't afford to do this--yeah, they should stop complaining about grandma's house. As long as grandma's house has good bones, they should learn to pick up a paintbrush and take the long view.[/quote]

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