We owned and went back to renting. Home ownership sucks. Taxes, maintenance, the stress of finding contractors who couldn't care less about you, Saturdays at the Home Depot, being trapped under the weight of a mortgage for 10+ years before you even see a mild positive increase in your equity...it's a joke. And if you want to move? Forget it. You're stuck.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have the exact opposite problem, I'm sick of moving. I have to move just about every 2 years because of some bullshit my landlord pulls... I just want stability, to know I don't have to worry about looking for a new place so damn often...

[–] Mellibird@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Prior to buying our house, the longest I had lived in one house/apt for the past decade was no more than 2 years. After being in our house for a year, it legit felt weird to not be packing up our things and getting ready to vacate. It was amazing to not have to go through the stress of finding a decent place at a decent price and then moving. It also felt so much better knowing how much some of my friends pay for their Apts and that my mortgage is cheaper than their tiny ass one bedroom. And that my monthly price isn't going to increase next year like everyone else who's renting and needs to renew their leases. Yeah, we're the ones who take care of our own maintenance and yard work. But everything we've done so far would be things that we would have taken care of ourselves in a rented house.

The responsibility is more yes. The decrease in stress in regards to finding a new place to live constantly, the general stress of moving, and not having a place that you can legitimately call home has made us feel like this has by far been the superior choice.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly! For some reason this makes people angry though. Be careful 😉

I think that people also have this idea that it's easy to maintain a property. Maybe -- temporarily -- if you find the right place. I always had a list of like 10 things I needed to do. Every time I started one of those things, the job suddenly got more expensive and time consuming than anticipated. Also, mowing/weedeating a yard is literally the last way I ever want to spend hours of my weekends.