Millennials vs boomers house hunting 

So you’re taking advice from the Progressive Insurance Parentalife coach?

It took me 8 months to buy. That's a Gen-X trait. We don't trust anything and question everything.

I've learned to act as if I couldn't care less if I get the house...but then we buy houses needing lots of work (hubby was a home builder/renovator/property developer for years, so he has tools and skills. When the property is distressed, you can act like they're lucky you made an offer and get great deals. Even if you can only do the demo and paint, the savings on a renovation can be significant. Sweat equity is where it's at.

​@@dgeneeknapp3168 I don't know about you but I'm the daughter of a real estate agent and I don't want to buy a lemon- thanks! Paint and minor reno like tile and new counters ok I can see past that dated mess. Structural problems ? I am NOT touching that with a 10ft pole !

@@ah5721 We Don't do structural either, but hubby will still tackle electrical and plumbing as well as the stuff you mentioned and knock out or build walls for major changes. He'll buil an addition too, if we want it. He's very gifted, so places that don't get any nibbles are prime targets for sharks like us. If the roof and foundation are good, we'll give it a good look over for possibilities.

Fr 😂😂

Some of us are actually good with our money 😂

I a millennial, and have owned a home since i was 22

@@msharp6887 ...one day you will come to a fork in the road and the house could become an issue tho ... meantime a great investment ...

@@willgaukler8979 will, I'm 36, I have owned 4 houses since then.

29 and same!

I am 30 and don’t want that 😖

@@MrsRexLover yes! They make me 😡

25 and same lol. My grandparents use it and it drives me nuts!!

@@jill5006 I’m the same way when I hear someone use it in their house. I wonder if it shows on my face lol

There is so much pressure these days to waive the inspection, but I just couldn't do that. I'm not an expert and I can't spend that kind of money on something without knowing what I'm getting.

Somebody fill me in on this comment regarding not requesting an inspection... 🤔

@@PettyPaigetastic some people don’t feel that an inspection is needed because they get worried the seller will go with someone else or they feel the seller is honest enough that they would tell them what’s actually wrong in the home before selling it and some just don’t feel they have the time to wait through the process. Many ppl have gone without getting an inspection and ran into a nightmare and some don’t get it and they are fine but when buying something like a home I say get it, PERIOD. In MY experience I have people I know (family & family friends) who have gone without and I just couldn’t get with their logic of passing up on that

@@desertrose0027 I’m so happy you didn’t let ANY pressure stop you from doing one of the BIGGEST things that a true realtor would tell you to get NO MATTER WHAT. My realtor was awesome and when a seller of a home tried to sweeten the deal if we didn’t do an inspection she gave a thousand reasons why you should NEVER buy a home without an inspection. Reading on the importance of home inspections & her reassuring me that it’s perfectly fine to want and get an inspection BEFORE buying made a world of a difference in the type of home I ended up with!!!

@@kabc8547 Exactly! We were looking in 2019, so the market was hot but not quite as hot as it is now. Saw a fairly new house and everything looked ok until we got to the basement. There was a random hole in the wall that went under the master (which would be hard for even an inspector to properly check) and clear water stains on the walls. And the front yard sloped into the house, so you know that's where all the rain water was going. We didn't put in an offer, but we later found out from our realtor that it had sold for $20k over asking with a waived inspection. 😮 If even us, the non experts, can see the red flags who knows what other expensive problems were lurking in that house? It's crazy. I would rather lose a bid on a house than waive inspection.

Those wombats can be persistent, can't they? 😂😂

Never use a realtor.

You're a little off. Avg sale price in 2022 was $267,549. If commission is 6% (sometimes lower) it would be $16,052. And you have to split that with other agent and other broker and your broker. So you get $4,013. With that you have to pay for license fees, CE credits and E and O insurance plus other expenses. Even if you sell one house a month you are making less than $50k.

@@crismcdonough2804 average sale price in my metro is $560k. As a seller all I see is realtors making $10,000s while putting in limited effort.

@@annsmith7196 go get your license. You'll see you're wrong about minimal effort.

Good luck getting a house in 2023 that way 😂

How old are your parents?

The wealthy are monopolizing the real estate sector in hopes to create a two tier political system. It is not coincidence most of the wealthy in America have no diversity of ideological views. They prescribe what will submit us and then tell us it's for our safety. Psychopaths.

My Mama raised me that way too.

That’s exactly how it should be done

Straight up

I do too!

Join the Good Death movement! I want to have a natural burial or be composted.

At 4 acres I'm an acre short but if I ever get a larger parcel I will legally designate an acre for burial.

My mom died Sept 13, 2021… she was cremated, and her ashes spread in the family backyard. That house was bought in 1966; she and my dad raised all of us kids and countless animals there. She said she wanted to be buried in the backyard, until she decided to be cremated. Take THAT city codes!!

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Well, their poop is square. So it all depends on whether or not you're short on paving bricks for the patio reno.

I mean, really, who cares? Do you want the damn house or not?

Amen, me too. Can relate to both

how can you evn afford a house? Daaamn

@@anastasiab9506 oh I don’t have a house. Still in college living with parent. But just looking between houses and apartment monthly fees they are pretty much the same. Heck some houses are cheaper than apartments because some apartments are charging monthly pets fees. I have five pets plus two large fish tanks I’m better off saving up for a house than an apartment.

So Gen x :)

​@@redtesta Don't remind these people that we exist. They might try to drag us in their insane worlds of bullpoop

As an unschooler, I can attest that I can, in fact, read. 😂😂

I knew an unschooler whose son needed remedial math when he applied to community college. Nope!

I was an honor student graduate who needed remedial math when I attended university, so what does that say about public schools? And if a public school grad can’t teach their kids to read, what does that say about public schools?

@@naturefleur2062 Public schools were designed to be for those too poor to afford proper schooling. Then laws changed and almost everyone goes to the public school closest to their house and parents have no choice of teacher.

Actually, public schools were created in America to educate future factory workers: “The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we work, it created the need for universal schooling. Factory owners required a docile, agreeable workers who would show up on time and do what their managers told them. Sitting in a classroom all day with a teacher was good training for that. Early industrialists were instrumental, then, in creating and promoting universal education. Now that we are moving into a new, post-industrial era, it is worth reflecting on how our education evolved to suit factory work, and if this model still makes sense.” Why would it matter WHICH public school teacher teaches a student? Shouldn’t they all be qualified if they are teaching dozens of different students each year, and hundreds of students during their career? And a student is taught by dozens of teachers in their time at school, IF they attend the full 12-13 years. I doubt only one teacher could be blamed for broad gaps in a student’s learning. It’s the system itself, isn’t it? Oh, but we aren’t allowed to find fault with the system, are we? Only those who don’t follow the leader are we allowed to mock. I think it’s laughable that the system nowadays preaches tolerance and inclusion, but those who prize their tolerant views so highly make fun of unschoolers, who they see as beneath them, an easy target, and a perfect target for ridicule. When unschoolers are actually ahead of their time, creating autodidactic learning environments for their children who grow up to thrive in the world and also feel a sense of ownership and satisfaction in their education for the most part. Ironic. Maybe that desire to mock and devalue and invalidate exists so much in those who champion public schools because deep down the public schoolers are intimidated by their public school graduate peers who chose to raise their kids outside the broken system, and whose kids somehow thrive WITHOUT the prized public schools? Maybe that smarts just a little too much to let go unpunished…..Bullying, that’s not something you’d find in public school culture.

This!!!!!! Wtf?!?!🤣🤣🤣 I'm like how?!?

Only on weekends 💀

😂😂😂

I like butterflies, but I'm lazy... think they'd hire me to chase butterflies from home, virtually? :) Maybe I could get a drone?

Yes!! Wicked funny!

Same!!

Twern't a joke. Just fact.

Indeed (also in PA)

Sad news…you’ll never be a boomer. It’s not a ‘yet’ type of thing.

If you use Google product's or Microsoft windows ..then you already lost your privacy ... and you proberly lost alot hitting "accept cookies" if do that. Might aswell get the Alexa aswell :)

You’ll never be a boomer. You’ll always be the gen you were born into, whether z, Millenial, GenX, Boomer, Silent Gen, etc. it deoends on which span of years you were born.

@@NOLAgenX Yes I was born in 79 so that makes me on the cusp of millennial and Gen X.

@@patriciakrakowiak1442 Oh you’re firmly one of us, GenX! You’re in the final year but it matters not. 👍

Funny, is that my property already has a small family grave yard from the previous owner. I would have no issues getting buried on my own property.

They weren’t breaking in. They were given permission to look at it.

They really aren't safe, even if you don't think they aren't listening in. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ozIKwGt38LQ.html

😂😂😂😂

what about the GenX?

@@Darkphoenix3450 There’s not enough of them to matter as a voting bloc.

@JayJ you too!!!!!

Depends on whether it's done correctly or incorrectly. If one just let's the kid lose to be completely self-sufficient in their own education (the feral approach) then of course it will turn out poorly when it comes to practical skills in society. The correct way to do it is to deliberately put the educational material within their reach in such a way that they never lose the intuitive and "playful" feeling of learning. The idea is that, at first, people learn because we *want* to; we're driven by natural curiosity and conduct our own experiments and research in a natural way, according to our own personal drive for knowledge. But, at a certain point, that gets overwritten by a different learning model; one where learning is work, it's a chore, it's undesirable, and imposed from the outside rather than a desire that wells up from the inside. Even if there's something you enjoy doing, if someone directs you to sit down and do it repeatedly, month to month, on *their* terms, just for the sake of improving your skill at it, even if it comes at the cost of your enjoyment, most people will grow up resentful that their joy was stripped away. Consider musicians who _love_ music, but get burnt out doing it as a job. Consider a programmer who _loves_ the challenge of solving an interesting problem by coming up with a unique new code structure, but gets burnt out from making the same old copy-paste programs with only the most marginal of changes. Regarding the Standardized Tests, I'm not sure if it's related, but I, myself, struggled back when I was in public school. I was a "gifted" kid, and let me say this, being "gifted" is no gift; or, at least if it is, it's not a cool gift like birthday gifts or Christmas gifts. It's the lame kind of gift like Hanukkah gifts or "I almost forgot our anniversary and had to get something last minute" gifts. I started off doing *really* well because learning _was_ fun. I took to it like a fish to water. But, as time went on, I became more disillusioned with the school system. I still loved to learn; one of my hobbies was to just grab an encyclopedia and start reading. But the *way* that it was done in schools was what bothered me. Most kids needed 20-50 repetitions to really solidly fix a concept in their mind; I had it in about 3-5 and I was ready to move on to the next thing, but I couldn't. I *had* to do all 20-50 repetitions, designed for typical students, well past the point of understanding and interest. To compound that issue, I had mild ADHD and, while the effects were being treated with counseling (no meds needed at the time), I was *never* informed as to what I had or how it was what was _causing_ those effects. So, when it came to Standardized Tests, I was absolutely acing them... while pulling about a 2.5 GPA. I could sit at home and run math equations "just for fun" or research a random topic that popped into my head just fine, but the moment it became a homework assignment, I lost all interest. So I get the distinct impression, given the similarities, that a lot of these "unschooled" kids are probably a lot like I was; gifted, maybe mild unknown ADHD, lots of random knowledge based on whim and fancy, and excellent when it comes to one-off challenges like Standardized Tests. If public schools were less "one-size-fits-all" and better accommodated people like me and other neurodivergent students, they could more reliably do things like "unschooling" the correct way.

@@omargoodman2999 same boat here, and I've since forgotten how to properly pick learning back up without it Feels like a twist of the knife

@@omargoodman2999 It is both a blessing and a curse to know that others have lived through this. You explained it very well!

Interesting. I see children in the public school as "artifically raised" and homeschooled children as "organically raised". Public school has failed in so many ways to prove that mass production childcare simply does not work well for society long-term.

Omg yes!! Or your couch smells like old grease and fish you fried many times 😩 yeah...I'll pass on the open concept.

I too am a 30 year old boomer

Not even 30 yet boomer🤣

😂😂😂😂Yes!!!! CHRONOLOGICALLY 👏👏

Yes. My soul is total boomer.

35 and I am the boomer. I trust no one. Alexa, eat my ass. Contracts are gonna be read, highlighted, and given to a lawyer.

Same here...lol

Just keeping it real.

What does it mean to buy off market?

@@radhiadeedou8286 house wasn’t listed for sale..it was through a private realtor or individual they knew.

I bought a home around the same time as my parents. The boomer part is all true. 50 percent of millennial part is like me. 😆

The bright side of being a Gen X is that our generation is so small, that we are never the butt of these types of jokes. On the flip side Gen-X has almost no influence on politics as the gov't transistions from boomers to Millennials in gov't positions. Gen-X = Silent Generation II.

Good point! Boomers might also be buying vacation homes lol

Omg! The light bulb just went off reading your comment and I got who he was talking about 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Xennial here and same! 😂

Get rid of it

Yep. I'm a millennial and I only act somewhat like the younger guy because I have no choice. The market has been getting slightly easier for buyers around here, but I know that last year things were selling for 20% above asking with no inspections and no contingencies. I'm using downpayment assistance and my realtor said that some sellers won't even look at my offer since my financing is a bit more complex and requires an inspection. People who act like the boomer in a market like this are going to have a rough time ever getting an offer accepted. Hopefully we'll get back to having reasonable house prices again at some point so that we don't have to do things out of desperation when buying something!

@@renee3461 you just have to wait until the institutional investors lose interest in buying homes 😀

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The can eavesdrop on smartphones too.

@@guytech7310 They definitely do!

Bonus! You are proof that unschooled can communicate via written language 😀

I heard it from Brett Favre on one of his old mic’d up videos

SAME!

That would make you gen x, not boomers.

@@alijane6675 Gen X officially ended in 1980. Those of us born in the late 70s to early 80s were caught between generations, sort of mini generation of our own that doesn't really fit in with either, commonly called Xennials. I know I'm not a Boomer. My point was simply that I related far more to the Boomer character than the Millennial.

@@bucketofsunshine6366 No one calls you that but yourselves. You’re millennials.

Behold, us kids from the Oregon Trail Generation. We learned what a card catalog was but grew up with computers, too. We read the fine print and we use Zillow. We can translate between Millennials and Boomers and get lost in between. It’s been the best. And we played the hell out of Oregon Trail at school on old Apple IIe (2-E) computers.

The going to the shop in tears part was the most millennial thing I've read.

@@PewciSlayer I know right? 😂

So you don't own a car, eh?

@@bugwar5545 not a new one, I’m old school

@@lesliemoore2644 Just out of curiosity, what happens when that car dies?

@@bugwar5545 I buy another old car, currently at 200,000 a Honda , still going 💃🏼🤣

@@lesliemoore2644 Buying clunkers eh? Enjoy driving a waiting accident.

That’s how it goes and we are fine watching these two groups battle it out.