[Hondaracer]

You build sweat equity.

You plant gardens for what they will look like in 3-4 years, you landscape for the following 2, you clean your gutters so you don’t have to next year.

All you’re doing is biding time for yourself. I spent almost 3 years renovating so that I can finally kick my feet up and do the maintenance and aesthetic work I want.

I think I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again, if you aren’t capable of minor fixes and maintenance work, paying someone to do this type of work will become overwhelmingly exhaustive/prohibitively expensive.

This is moreso a vanity item but I’ll give an example. I just had the company that Costco works with that does closet organizers etc. I have a fairly basic open closet right now that’s about 8’ wide by 3’ deep. I also got a quote on a little corner unit for the wife’s makeup stuff etc.

I thought an “excessive” quote would be around 3500-4000 as I figure I could build what I asked for myself for around $1000-1500. This company got back to me with a quote of 6450...

To really dumb it down, if you can’t build a book shelf or a TV console from ikea etc. You’re best bet is to find a strata property which will handle the maintenance for you.