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Most women can’t and don’t even own power tools. Not ones I know. And there’s usually more to it than “operating a power tool.”
Oh God, please suck it. Before I met and married my husband, I did most of my own repairs/maintenance and owned quite a few power tools. We've combined our tools and now work together on projects.
I can't stand attitudes and opinions like this. Most of the single female homeowners I know are very capable with home maintenance...some are far more skilled at it than most men I know.
What’s your point? I didn’t say you couldn’t find YouTube videos of women making repairs, nor did I say no women could. I just said MOST. And if MOST women have a boyfriend of husband, the boyfriend or husband would be doing the handyman activities MOST of the time. And I have a large sample size of women by the way.
Even if a woman doesn't know how to do repairs, there's this new invention called "learning".
For what it's worth, I've seen the local Home Depot give classes on tool use specifically for women.
Having said that, it's convenient to perform simple repairs yourself, but if you can afford it there's nothing wrong with paying people to do repairs, as everyone has to do anyway when out of their depth.
There's also nothing wrong with living in an apartment or condo where your maintenance is handled by another party and costs are averaged out with the other residents.
I would also say that buying a house strictly as an investment is a poor idea; there's no guarantee your house will increase in value while you live there. Overall, it's economically unsustainable for housing prices to rise faster than inflation; you're counting on buying a house in the right neighborhood and/or selling at the top of the bubble. It's probably better than a coin flip, but there's still significant risk involved vs e.g. living in a cheaper home and investing the difference in the stock market.
some are far more skilled at it than most men I know.
Wait. Isn't this almost the exact same thing I said about women?? Yet you're now making this statement about men, but someone can't make it about women?? You should be ashamed. And you are just one of many women. You're individual skill level irrelevant to a claim about MOST women.
LOL...that's BS! Property maintained always goes up over time.
In times where interest rates were steadily declining for 40 years, along with population growth of 100m, this old adage may have been true. With the demographic shifts ahead, and rates about as far low as they'll go (Powell has ruled out NIRP), it's very possible we are at a real value peak that may not be seen for decades, as housing growth could underperform inflation and wage growth from here on out for quite some time, if not outright fall into a correction if unemployment ticks up.
Hey, I'm a 69 year old woman and have very few skills in home repair. I'm "mechanically challenged" (seriously, I took an aptitude test very early and had 98% verbal skills and 2% mechanical skills, lol). I literally can't comprehend some diagrams or videos if they have to do with wiring, etc. However, I owned my last house, which was 91 years old when I sold it, for 16 years. I did a LOT to that house through trusted tradespeople up to and including foundation work.
I think that speaks to the fact that it isn't mechanical aptitude that's required, its the ability to not get wound up and have the requisite personality to get three quotes and not get unspooled about problems that arise.
The personality that should rent is the person that loses it, jumps to the worst possible conclusions about the foundation issue, wants to sell the house since he's afraid it will fall down around him, etc...
The person that says, "I'll get three quotes and do my own research on google and write a check" is the person that is fine buying a house.
If you rent and it breaks, you call the landlord and he calls the handyman.
If you own and it breaks, you call the handyman.
The difference is, that if you rent and it breaks, and the landlord makes shoddy/delayed/inadequate/cheap repairs, all that's hurt is your convenience. If you own and it breaks, then you MUST fix it, otherwise you lose money when it's time to sell the house.
If I rent an apartment in an apartment-house where the roof leaks, resulting in mold and rotten wood, that's the landlord's problem. If he chooses not to fix it, or fixes it inadequately, then he gets punished, when he finally tries to sell the building. If I buy a house, and likewise neglect leaks and mold, then I'm going to be punished personally and dearly, when I try to sell the house.
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