Retired??? no such thing in our life.
I took an early retirement when I was 55. Since that time, we've owned 5 house's, so there has been no rest.
But, Let's just cover the last 11 years..........
1st, rented out our Arkansas home (which by the way we hand built ourselves) and bought a house in Florida.
Florida house #1... tore out and rebuilt the kitchen entirely. New appliances. closed in the lanai. re-roofed house. new a/c unit. Installed in-ground sprinkler system. removed carpet and tiled entire house. replaced aging board privacy fence. painted the outside of the house, and all of the inside rooms as well. Replaced all windows with energy efficient ones. bought a new huge refrigerator and had to knock out a wall and expand the room so fridge would fit in kitchen. Sold house for a profit and headed back to Arkansas to bounce non paying renter.
Arkansas... Upon returning and getting the law to remove the deadbeats, we started repairs. They had stolen all appliances, half the cabinets, all the light fixtures, including the ceiling fans, and even some of the wiring.
We had to completely rebuild the kitchen.
Somehow they had leaked water in bathroom and rotted floor.
Had to repair the floor, and install a new shower and toilet. Not to mention the mountain of trash, (and I mean mountain), they left behind. 22,000 dollars later, and a whole lot of sweat, we had it back to livable. Now, the everyday chores included bush hogging about 25 acres of the 38 we had, cutting up any dead-fall in the woods, and then splitting and stacking the winter firewood supply. Mowing and weed wacking and spraying for bugs,the 1 acre fenced piece of yard for the fur babies. Then, I re-did our private road (hauled the gravel in our dump trailer, spread the gravel with the box blade on the tractor).
Florida house #2... the latest acquisition. This time, I just closed up the Arkansas house. (never will rent out again).
Again, a house that needed a lot of love. All new appliances, paint the house, fence the yard for fur babies, work on the driveway, try to clear some of the jungle growth around the property, and not finished yet. Starting to sound like a broken record ain't it.