So I have been browsing this site for about a year since my wife and I started looking for a SFH to purchase ( we did almost a year a go) and have been fascinated/ have learned a lot from the site. All of the millennial talk has compelled me to post.
I feel like my wife and I (I just turned 30, she 28) were more on the edge of millennials. We both grew up working at a young age and earning money. When I was 6-7 I was mowing our front lawn in military housing one day, then all of a sudden one neighbor after another came out offering to pay me to do theirs. I think that’s an experience most of my generation has missed. I got my first W2 paying job at 14 and have worked ever since. My wife got he CPA license before she was 25 and has a great job at a construction company.
Since buying our home (which is/was a mild fixer), we’ve probably made 10 dump runs with various demolition which we’ve done our selves. I’ve replaced plumbing fixtures, valves, the dishwasher, patio cover and more. In the fall when I was in between jobs I spent 3 months prepping and painting our house. All of which I learned from helping with my parents house which was a dump when they bought it.
My wife an I are constantly debating people our age on what’s really wrong with people like Bernie Samders plans. It is like talking to wall to say the least.
A lot of our friends are like minded and doing the same types of things. I guess my point of this is there is some hope for millennials but we definitely understand and have the same problems as you all do.
Someone mentioned leasing cars, I started working at John Hine in Mission Valley this past November (my first sales gig, I worked for the Marine Corps before) and decided to lease because the employee pricing was too good to pass up. We also did the math on her previous car, with what she paid for her BMW ( she bought it before I met her and could talk her out of it) and the money and time I spent fixing it (myself), the cost was the same.
Anyway, thanks for the great info, I’m curious to know how many millennials read this (poll?)
