My life
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I’m most likely going to rent after I sell the house. If I want to pay less than what I pay now for a two bedroom house, with full basement and decent backyard, I will need to get a studio. If I get a one bedroom apt then I will end up paying around $500 more than my current mortgage. Or I could buy a studio condo for the price I paid for my house (2008). No good options really.
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Home ownership is overrated anyway.
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Seconded. Too much hassle. When I move from the house it will be a condo/townhome/apartment.
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I agree. Not really my thing to be honest. But in 10ish years the value of my my modest home has easily tripled, maybe quadrupled. If I had been renting this entire time, that profit wouldn’t be there. I don’t care for house maintenance but do appreciate the profit.
I do really look forward to living someplace smaller with a gym and pool and roof deck view of the city. I’ve already paired my possessions down to what fits in my bedroom (except for kitchen stuff). I just wish a smaller place meant it would cost less than my house.
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It wasn’t so much the profit for us (which is nice really) but the knowing the mortgage won’t go up like rent would and long run that has been a good thing.
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That’s something I didn’t think about. You are at their mercy in regard to rent bumps. Ugh.
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Three years ago I would have agreed, after a wildfire took our house and a number of unrelated factors made us (lifetime?) renters. For me, the unexpected downside of renting is that you get what you get: there is no longer any consideration of “there should be a dimmer in here” or “I could enlarge this window” or “this room needs a sun tunnel”.
While I don’t miss the dread that comes with trying to budget for a new roof, I really miss the freedom to make even small changes, or even just consider them in anything other than wistful dreams.
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OK EVERYBODY remember not to move to Seattle. It’s awful. It’s cold and wet and dark and there’s nowhere to park and the local culture is “Minnesota nice” without the nice. And you WILL wreck your car because you don’t know how to drive sideways up a ski jump.
Did we mention the cost of living? The days when any idiot could get a good job at Microsoft are long gone. They check references and everything now. And I think you even need a degree before they let you build an airplane at Boeing. Anyway you can’t afford the rent. Have you tried Idaho?
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Funny because it is all true. I think the Seattle tourism board should make this their new slogan. Do we have a tourism board?
Reminded me of this commentary when the snow was on it’s way here.
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That’s what we’re planning when the kids are out. Either a nice condo or one of those fancy Bellevue apartments with all the amenities, downtown where we can walk to everything. I want an exercise room and a sauna and a coffee shop downstairs.
So they “plowed” my street finally last night. By which I mean they pushed all the snow straight to the end of the cul de sac, blocking two neighbors in and burying their trash cans. Which were out because they said they’d pick up our Monday garbage yesterday but then they never came.
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