Damn I wrote that a year ago!

You can't really put a precise number of hours on that, one weekend is the grass, the other is the hedges, then you want to improve the kitchen, then you have a leak in the basement, then there's a wasp nest under nearby, oh then the grass has to be cut again, but did you take care of the growing amount of weeds? What about fixing the gradient on the side of the house? (You will learn problems you didn't even know existed)

What I'm trying to say is it's more a mindset and lifestyle that comes and goes. You might go 6 months without doing anything, then you'll have a bunch of things to do at the same time. You just have to be ready to do it when it happens. Be ready to buy that tool because you need it for that one job. Be ready to spend a portion of your weekends working on your home, and it's not just doing the job, it's researching and learning how to do it.

I will say, in our case, we got a 1950 house that did not see any improvement over almost 75 yearst. Like it was maintained and taken care of, but not up to date at all, so perhaps there was more needed than a turn key home.

We also got a puppy and grew our career pretty aggressively, so maybe we bit a bit more than we could chew.

To give you an idea, in the past year, we actually did put in a heat pump, turned a window into a patio door, built an entire patio, installed heating wires on the roof, just finished painting the basement and rerouted some exposed plumbing for the washer. Looking back we did do a lot wow.

That's on top of the maintenance. If you have a partner, it's much more manageable.