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Do you rent or own where you live? Is it what you want to be doing? (discuss.online)
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I managed to buy a small house during the weird financial stuff going on during covid. As much as this gif is accurate, I like it better than renting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Own.

Upsides:

  • Equity
  • Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
  • Room for activities
  • Big yard for family and pets
  • If something needs maintaining, I don't have to depend on someone else to "get around to it."

Downsides:

  • Property taxes are high (but almost all of it goes to the school district, and our district is really good, lots of focus on music and theater)
  • Appliances, HVAC, fixtures, carpet: shit's expensive, yo
  • If something needs maintaining, I can't just push it off on someone else
  • Less flexibility if I want to move (thankfully, I don't, but who knows what tomorrow will bring anymore)

We've been homeowners for decades now, there's really no going back, but I don't miss renting at all. Full disclosure, our rental time was always in apartments, never in a single-family home. My in-laws rented a single-family for a few years after a foreclosure, and it didn't seem any different from our ownership. If I was to go back to renting, it would be that. No more apartments for me.