Window Issues Top Home Repair Searches In Minnesota

Owning a home here in Minnesota means there’s always something that needs fixing, replacing, tightening, or, if you’re like me, just ignoring for another six months. But when researchers looked at the home repairs Minnesotans search for most, the winner was a surprisingly simple chore that can turn into a much bigger headache pretty quickly..

Most Common Home Repair in Minnesota Revealed

Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but it could also be known as the land of 2.4 million homes. A recent Minnesota Compass survey says there are just under 2.5 million homes that are inhabited right now in the North Star State.

And, according to Bankrate.com, Minnesota is one of the top ten states in the country when it comes to homeownership rates. In fact, the Bold North ranks 8th on that list, with 75.1 percent of Minnesotans owning their own home. That's well over the national rate of just over 65 percent.

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But when you DO own a home, one of the biggest chores you're on the hook for is keeping it up. Whether it's a leaky roof, water pouring into your basement, or a toilet that's overflowing, there are a LOT of different things that periodically need to be repaired on or in your home.

I can attest to this! We bought our home in Rochester nearly 15 years ago when it was only 11 years old. But now that it's been around 26 years, we're starting to see more and more of those annoying repairs start to pop up. And, of course, you need to take care of those small problems before they turn into much bigger issues!

What Home Repairs Are Most Common Across the U.S.?

The crew at Roto-Rooter conducted a survey to find out which home repair Minnesotans tackle most. Roto-Rooter surveyed 1,000 homeowners to uncover the biggest home repair struggles. Specifically, they looked at Google Trends data across 20 common home repair terms to determine the top-searched repair in every U.S. state.

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Roto-Rooter found that faucet repair was the top-searched home repair over the past two decades. Eleven different states, including Iowa and Wisconsin, listed repairing leaky faucets as the most common home repair.

Minnesota’s Most Common Home Repair May Surprise You

In second place, a leaky, overflowing, or improperly running toilet came in as the second-most common home repair, noted in 8 different states. In addition to those, there were a couple of other unique standouts, like termite damage repair topping the list in Hawaii, or foundation repair in Texas.

But none of those repairs was the most common here in Minnesota.

Here in the Gopher State, fixing a broken window is the most common home repair Minnesotans are tasked with doing. That fun chore was also the most common home repair in Illinois, California, Nevada, and Oregon as well. Not that repairing or replacing a window is fun, mind you, because it certainly isn't. And if you don't know what you're doing, it can also be expensive too.

And while many home repair projects aren't inexpensive these days, I'm guessing they cost even more for the Most Expensive Home in Minnesota. Keep scrolling to take a look at this amazing ~~house~~ mansion!