The article makes me wonder what percentage of young new home owners are at all 'handy' and capable of performing simple maintenance on the used homes they buy.  Changing out my first hot water heater was daunting - didn't even know where the darn water shutoff was!  By the time I got to the 3rd, it was a piece of cake.

I was 'handy' and confident because my father did stuff like this, and what I didn't learn from him directly, I had been shown that fixing/repairing things was doable, and I just jumped in and tackled them.  Jump ahead three decades, and with the dearth of nuclear families and practical skills being looked down upon, and anything resembling vocational training no longer offered in schools - sort of makes one wonder ....

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