About r/homeowners
Community guide
r/homeowners (#344, about 3.1 million) appears as a homeowners discussion community; catalogue description was empty in our snapshot. Collected rules cover No Promotional Content (Spam); No surveys; Do not advise others to commit crimes. Sample ~30.7 ppd (191 posts). Sample mix: text:109, image:78, link:4.
What rules support
Homeowner topics with bans on promotional spam, surveys, and advising crimes. Mixed image/text samples (30.7 ppd). Related list only named RealEstate.
What belongs here
homeowners topical posts. Collected rule themes: No Promotional Content (Spam); No surveys; Do not advise others to commit crimes. Mixed sample composition: text:109, image:78, link:4.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Oct 9, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,859 subscribers (+0.06%). It sits just behind r/xxfitness (#343) and ahead of r/Piracy (#345) in our ranking.
What sets r/homeowners apart
Compared with other large communities, r/homeowners leans heavily on images (41% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 19%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/homeowners went up from 3,085,427 to 3,099,214 subscribers (+13.8K, +0.45%). That is about 313 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/homeowners this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 2, 2026).
- I noticed my neighbor opens his garage door first thing in the morning. A couple of neighbors do actually. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the cold months or in the summer. I wake up, open my blinds and th…u/alvvayspale · Oct 26 · text post
- Home repairs is a profit extraction target of private equityu/pgregston · Oct 29 · text post
- Would you sign a "well access easement" on your property?u/maritimer187 · Oct 26 · text post
- Their car insurance or my homeowner’s ????u/tied2gether · Oct 31 · image
- Just got my parents' basement tested for Radon levels... how bad is it REALLY?u/makoobi · Oct 31 · image
- Homes.com recording my house with a droneu/tinyLEDs · Oct 28 · text post
- It's just a toilet...u/snowball283 · Nov 1 · image
- Oiling garage door?u/mkraft · Oct 30 · image
- Which one do I use to fill in cracks on driveway concrete?u/RaspberryRare7096 · Oct 26 · image
- Are contractors all this difficult?u/Any-Dimension374 · Oct 27 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/homeowners, from 2024 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Final update on my elderly neighbor who spray painted the poop in my yardu/KWNBYGOD · Oct 13, 2025 · text post
- My new house came with built in Christmas lights and I can’t find their controls or how to turn them off?!? It’s driving me crazyu/Infinite-Chip-3365 · Sep 29, 2026 · image
- I Paid off my house! I "actually" own my home now! I just wanted to share, because I'm so excited.u/geocitiesuser · May 2, 2025 · text post
- Bought a house a few weeks ago and noticed the dryer wasn't working well. Found out why todayu/doubledeuce24 · Jul 13, 2026 · image
- UPDATE: Cutting 50 feet into my yard to make their yard look biggeru/duh0811 · Sep 6, 2025 · text post
- Broken garage door spring. Got new parts from store. Looks like an easy DIY fix.u/pinchhitter4number1 · Aug 25, 2026 · image
- Do you know what I hate about being a homeowner? Finding people to do work.u/Embarrassed_Flan_869 · Mar 23, 2025 · text post
- Just learned my house has a feature I didn’t even know existed after living here for two yearsu/CourteousPasta · Dec 11, 2025 · text post
- New Karen neighbor tried to destroy my water lineJan 16, 2024 · text post
- Hey Tradespeople! You're Doing A Job For Me, Not A Favor.u/peffervescence · May 18, 2026 · text post
What r/homeowners talks about
Looking at the titles of 191 recent posts (Oct 24–Oct 31), the words that come up most are “home”, “water”, “house”, “advice” and “neighbors”. Other frequent themes are help, foundation, garage, heater, work and neighbor. Recurring phrases include “water heater”, “sump pump”, “smoke alarm” and “property line”. By format, 57% are text posts, 41% are images and 2% are links.
Popular post flairs: 💬 General/Other (16), 🔑 New Homeowner (12), 🏠 Exterior (12), 🪟 Windows & Doors (10), 🏘️ Neighbors (5), 😤 Vent / Rant (5).
Activity and best time to post
r/homeowners gets about 31 new posts a day. The public archive holds 170,529 posts and 3,377,232 comments in total, about 19.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (34 posts) and the quietest was Friday (18). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/homeowners
The moderators of r/homeowners list 3 rules. In short:
- No Promotional Content (Spam)
- No surveys
- Do not advise others to commit crimes
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/homeowners and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/homeowners?
r/homeowners has 3,099,214 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #344 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 13,787 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/homeowners created?
r/homeowners was created on Oct 9, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years.
Is r/homeowners still active?
Yes. r/homeowners gets about 31 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 170,529 posts and 3,377,232 comments. In a sample of 191 recent posts we counted 186 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/homeowners?
Based on post counts from Oct 24, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/homeowners?
The community describes itself as: “Homeowners” Recent post titles often mention home, water, house, advice and neighbors. Most posts are text posts (57%).
Is r/homeowners SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/homeowners as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/homeowners?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/homeowners accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 3 posted rules, starting with: “No Promotional Content (Spam)”; “No surveys”; “Do not advise others to commit crimes”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/homeowners?
Communities with similar topics include r/RealEstate (2.5M), r/DIY (27.5M), r/AskUK (2.5M), r/personalfinance (21.9M) and r/BuyItForLife (4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 2, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/homeowners.