I agree. However, sinking only $50K into a house is nothing. One year, I spent nearly $20K replacing normal shit like well and septic pumps, oil tank, water tanks, and poor plumbing. Then I spent $12K fixing a floor after my furnace blew up and poured water all over it. So STFU!

I bought a house at 19 with my then boyfriend. We were both working and back then in 2000, it was much less expensive, even though we were buying in CT. My bf was pretty useless but his dad was awesome and combed over the house with me. My mom and I climbed up and inspected the roof - she was a roofer, carpet layer, among other construction-y things. I could have found people to help me, including my mom, of course if I had been on my own, but I wasn't willing to take that debt on my own.

We only lasted two years after buying it and he got it in the divorce, but in those two years we had a lot of expenses and we had savings to take care of them just in case. Two months after we bought it the boiler literally sprung a bunch of leaks when it was less than 10 degrees out. That was fun and 12k. There were a lot of odds n ends. Dishwasher it came with didn't work, not that I cared buy my bf insisted we needed a new one so I picked one up from the Sears scratch and dent place and put that in. The oven didn't work, again, just picked up a middle of the road one and installed it.

I could only imagine what some women would have done. I was raised learning how to do that kind of work, but just some chick off the street would have to be paying people a lot of money for the stuff I was able to do or call my mom and have her walk me through it. I did have to pay a guy to come get rid of the ants, and another to clean out the chimney. I had a septic guy come and poke at the septic just in case and he said even though it was old it was perfectly fine and I likely wouldn't need to talk to him for another 10 years if there were only two of us in the house.

You have to not only have the down payment and the salary to keep up the payments, but money set aside for all the things that just happen. I didn't really want to do it, but felt I had no choice. The debt is staggering to buy a house and you both need to be willing to work on and maintain it. It was hard when all he wanted to do was play video games and demand food at his PC while I was trying to keep the house maintained. Doing it without his help money-wise would have been impossible.

Yeah but,..it was "cute"! Smh..

Wow, she's a total moron. Obviously surface level, basic bitch inner mind workings. I hate seeing articles like this because it reinforces a stereotype that women should never make any important decisions because they're judgement is shit. I kind of agree with that, but some of us are outliers.

I bought my first (and currently only) house 10 years ago when I was 25. It was a foreclosure that was vacant for 1.5 years, and is over 200 years old. Admittedly, I was EXTREMELY LUCKY as there were no major repairs needed aside from roof replacement, but I hired 2 inspectors with good reputation in my area. I've never married, so there's no "husband" to make all my decisions for me or consult with, which is fine by me. Instead, I looked over the house multiple times with my realtor, took assessments of all needed repairs both large and small, priced it out and created a spreadsheet so I had an accurate and thorough idea of what I was "up against". This allowed me to justify my low but reasonable offer to purchase. It took 6 months to close, but it was worth it.

I hired a company to replace my roof. I have been systematically renovating my house starting in the attic and working down to the front door. I've been able to do 99% of the renovations myself. It's been a long process, luckily my grandfather is a contractor and I learned a lot from him. Using carefully researched products and sticking to a strict budget has allowed me to renovate on a single income.

Home ownership is one of the most important investments you ever make (assuming you're middle/working class like me) so not doing any objective inspection to a home is profoundly stupid. At this point, she doesn't deserve her dream home.... not because she's a woman, but because she's an idiot.

50K on secondary cosmetic fixes she can’t afford. the house needs a man to keep the woman in line.

She was failed by her home inspector.

which ranged from 'rotten' walls to 'termite damage.'

'First, the seller didn't disclose, like, anything,' she dished. 'Second, my inspector completely failed me.

'80 per cent of the house ended up having dry rot and water damage that he didn't mention.

'There was an entire bedroom where every single joist underneath was either termite damaged or completely rotten.

'There was a tree growing in my foundation through my attic and a hole in my attic because there's just no sheathing.

'All the of the electrical in the house is faulty and done poorly. The entire house is a fire hazard basically.

'My roof has a dead valley in it, so all of the water just sits there and has nowhere to go except into the house.

You'd think there would be legal repercussions for such negligence. However she is negligent herself. She should be looking at the house critically. I'd say the moral of the story is boss bitches should probably not buy homes without a man they trust, ideally a husband or father viewing it. I don't see how the average man who is at least somewhat handy around the house would miss some of these red flags. Rotten supports and a hole in the roof? You missed that? Really?

lol (((Propaganda)))

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Desperate fucking moron liars.