jjp8182
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I'd recommend Milwaukee M12 line - enough power to do most tasks, a fair variety of tools, and compact enough to be very portable/handy.Remember when all of our cordless power tools were diesel? Oops, wrong thread.
On a more serious note, oldest son (ChemE) will be 25 on Halloween. He has no tools and wants some..specifically power tools. He lives in an apartment and likes it that way. All I can think of is a drill and maybe a reciprocating saw. The sets all have useless junk, imho.
I bought my wife (then fiancee) an M12 tire inflator (M12™ Compact Inflator ) to keep in her car trunk so she didn't have to go searching for working air compressors at various gas stations. That combined with a USB charger/power source (M12™ Charger and Portable Power Source) would be helpful for just about any/every apartment dweller who owns a vehicle. ....particularly since the M12 batteries aren't much larger than a small/medium size bottle of pain killers making them very easy to carry around on a daily basis (if needed) which means the USB charger/power source can also replace purpose built USB power packs for things like smart phones.
Otherwise the Ryobi line tends to be cheap and seems to be good enough for most DIY'ers. I recently expanded into the Ryobi 18V line do to someone on this forum illustrating the utility of their cordless pressure washer with a 5 gallong bucket as the water source. (which seemed useful enough I went an bought one myself for light cleaning duty).