Homeowners Are Sharing The Most Frustrating Issues They've Had With Modern Homes, Furniture, Etc. And It's Proof They Just Don't Have The Same Workmanship They Used To

I've been seeing a batch of complaints connected the net precocious astir people's frustrations with cheaply flipped houses and poorly constructed furniture. So, I decided to ask the homeowners and renters of BuzzFeed to archer maine the astir frustrating contented they've had with modern homes oregon modern furniture. Here are their answers:

1. "Not mine, but my brother's house. I person a 1940s location due to the fact that I don't spot caller houses. My ma and I were sitting successful my brother's surviving room, and helium went to instrumentality a ablution successful the different country down the sofa...we could perceive the h2o rushing done the pipes."

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"My ma looked astatine maine and said, 'I don't deliberation we're expected to beryllium proceeding that. Why tin we perceive that?' I said, 'You cannot perceive that astatine my house. I had lathe and plaster...welcome to caller houses.'"

—Anonymous, 40, Bakersfield, California

2. "13 years ago, we bought a new-build location with marque caller high-end appliances (that we picked). Not a azygous 1 has outlived the cheapest exemplary 25-year-old washer and dryer we bought erstwhile we were young and poor."

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"It was $450 for both, they inactive enactment great. We did a $5 DIY hole connected the washer 10 years ago, and nary issues since. My grandmother’s electrical stove lasted 65 years earlier replacement parts became unavailable, and I inactive usage her lasting mixer from 1947; it works flawlessly. "

—Anonymous, 45 North Carolina

3. "Before my hubby and I moved into our caller build, we recognized that the builder hadn't caulked astir thing successful the bathroom, truthful we made definite to bash that enactment (and seal grout) earlier moving in. We besides noticed they had utilized truly crappy undermount descend brackets, truthful we shored up that arsenic well."

4. "IKEA and the similar is each cheap, and is mostly discarded erstwhile we move. Would I similar to bargain pre-built, existent wood furniture? Of course! Now, what volition I usage for the 5 years minimum it volition instrumentality to prevention up a fewer 1000 for a java table?"

5. "My puerility furnishings was my mom's furnishings from erstwhile she moved into her archetypal flat implicit 30 years ago. Aside from immoderate breached tracks, they're inactive good. My ma astir apt paid $2,000 for 2 dressers, a vanity mirror, and a headboard. The aforesaid acceptable would astir apt outgo $7,000 present and wouldn't past 5 years, fto unsocial 35. I hatred it here."

6. "I person been waiting to vent astir this. My spouse and I saved up for a location for years and yet bought 1 — yay! It's successful a cookie-cutter improvement (I know, I know), and we recovered retired aft we purchased that the builder had been, um...running retired of wealth earlier the task was completed."

7. "It's truthful frustrating to maine that adjacent though I person disposable income now, I'm incapable to find furnishings made retired of good, coagulated wood. Everything is particleboard! I privation to furnish my location tastefully, but I consciousness similar everything is built for assemblage students oregon caller grads. Where are adults buying caller furniture?!"

8. "My flat is furnished astir exclusively by Facebook Marketplace finds and things from my grandparents that my ma gave to me. I emotion that older style, truthful that works for me. I utilized to person rather a spot of overmuch much affordable furniture, but implicit the ~10 years since college, a batch of it has broken. IKEA tables, bed, and immoderate different cheaper furnishings has each gone retired to the curb."

9. "My location is older, but it's a modern flip. We are trying to reconstruct its vintage charm, but ohhhh, my lord, if I had 1 connection for radical my age, it would beryllium this: STOP FLIPPING CHARMING OLD HOUSES!"

10. "The archetypal builder of my location had gone bankrupt during construction, and was bought retired by different builder. In the in-between time, the location had been near unfinished, with electrical wires hanging retired of the wall, and the floors undone. When the caller builder bought it, they finished it arsenic cheaply arsenic imaginable and sold it — to us! We waived inspection due to the fact that everyone does nowadays to beryllium competitive, and conscionable decided to get it inspected aft we bought it.

11. "Things contiguous conscionable aren't built to last; they're built to break. My hubby and I ain a new-build tract home, and we perfectly hatred it. We bought successful 2023 and person already had to bash truthful overmuch work, erstwhile thing successful this location should person adjacent gone incorrect yet. It's NEW! It seems similar period aft month, the enactment and the location repairs ne'er end."

12. "Two words: bubbling paint. Our upstairs bathtub connected our caller physique had been leaking into the walls. We lone realized this erstwhile the overgarment started bubbling connected the room walls. This was 3 months into owning the home. Just homeowner things!"

So, what did you think? Have immoderate complaints of your ain astir modern lodging and furnishings you privation to share? Feel escaped to archer maine astir it down successful the comments! Or, if you prefer, you tin constitute into this anonymous form. Who knows — your reply could beryllium portion of a aboriginal BuzzFeed article.

Please note: immoderate responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.