Ask the Builder: A Solution to the Starter Home Crisis

It’s very difficult for a young person or couple in their mid-20s to buy a home.
Ask the Builder: A Solution to the Starter Home Crisis
This is a very modest home just three miles from where I live. It's the perfect size and shape for a starter home. Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency
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We have a true crisis unfolding here in the USA. It’s very difficult for a young person or couple in their mid-20s to buy a home. My youngest daughter, who is 33, is facing this grim reality.

My other two children own a piece of the rock. I helped my oldest child, also a daughter, build her own home. She designed and drew the plans for the simple two-story home. My middle child, a son, was fortunate to purchase a new modest two-bedroom home three years ago. I’ve been working with him the past year on weekends to convert his massive basement into 1,200 square feet of finished living space, including a full bathroom.

Tim Carter
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Tim Carter is the founder of AsktheBuilder.com. He's an amateur radio operator and enjoys sending Morse code sitting at an actual telegrapher's desk. Carter lives in central New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Willow. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. He now does livestreaming video M-F at 4 PM Eastern Time at youtube.com/askthebuilder. (C)2022 Tim Carter. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.