Giving in

[bluehairdave]

[quote=briansd1][quote=bluehairdave]
Get married, buy a house, have a few kids buy a nicer and bigger house. Pay for college for the kids etc.. You know… Things that 90% of the rest of the world literally go to war to try to get the chance to do.[/quote]

Propaganda.

If you want to do it, then do it. But if others don’t want to, let them be. What is it to you if other people don’t buy? More for you.

Like I said before, the guy I know rents a $1.2 million house in La Jolla for $3,700/mo including pool and garden service. The owner wanted $4,800/mo but the house had been sitting. I told him to offer $3,700 with 6 months paid in advance so the owner knew he was serious. He got a great deal.[/quote]

Yes of course. 10’s of thousands of years or human nature doing a very similar thing is propaganda. Im willing to bet if you go talk to a single renter who never married or didnt have kids etc and ask them their lifes greatest regrets. Your going to find out it gets very lonely and sad. Then add in trying to live under a landlord when your senior? Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?

Im not saying everyone can or should buy a home but dont tell me its propaganda to go out in the world and scratch an instinctive itch to provide for your family and live comfortably and own land.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

[briansd1]

bluehairdave, I own real estate as part of a diversified portfolio. I just choose rent the place I live in.

Married and living in suburbia? Been there, done that. I like the choices I have now.

[quote=bluehairdave] Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?
[/quote]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

My cousin owns an old house free and clear outside of New York City. She has to maintain it and is putting a lot of money into it — money that could be invested for a return on investment. She’s now putting in an elevator for old age. Her kids like to come home to visit, but they have no interest in ever living in the house.

Also, do you actually believe that, as a rule, people are passing on houses free and clear to their kids? If that were the case, what would happen to housing sales and values a few decades down the road, if each family had less than two kids?

[briansd1]

bluehairdave, I own real estate as part of a diversified portfolio. I just choose rent the place I live in.

Married and living in suburbia? Been there, done that. I like the choices I have now.

[quote=bluehairdave] Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?
[/quote]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

My cousin owns an old house free and clear outside of New York City. She has to maintain it and is putting a lot of money into it — money that could be invested for a return on investment. She’s now putting in an elevator for old age. Her kids like to come home to visit, but they have no interest in ever living in the house.

Also, do you actually believe that, as a rule, people are passing on houses free and clear to their kids? If that were the case, what would happen to housing sales and values a few decades down the road, if each family had less than two kids?

[briansd1]

bluehairdave, I own real estate as part of a diversified portfolio. I just choose rent the place I live in.

Married and living in suburbia? Been there, done that. I like the choices I have now.

[quote=bluehairdave] Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?
[/quote]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

My cousin owns an old house free and clear outside of New York City. She has to maintain it and is putting a lot of money into it — money that could be invested for a return on investment. She’s now putting in an elevator for old age. Her kids like to come home to visit, but they have no interest in ever living in the house.

Also, do you actually believe that, as a rule, people are passing on houses free and clear to their kids? If that were the case, what would happen to housing sales and values a few decades down the road, if each family had less than two kids?

[briansd1]

bluehairdave, I own real estate as part of a diversified portfolio. I just choose rent the place I live in.

Married and living in suburbia? Been there, done that. I like the choices I have now.

[quote=bluehairdave] Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?
[/quote]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

My cousin owns an old house free and clear outside of New York City. She has to maintain it and is putting a lot of money into it — money that could be invested for a return on investment. She’s now putting in an elevator for old age. Her kids like to come home to visit, but they have no interest in ever living in the house.

Also, do you actually believe that, as a rule, people are passing on houses free and clear to their kids? If that were the case, what would happen to housing sales and values a few decades down the road, if each family had less than two kids?

[briansd1]

bluehairdave, I own real estate as part of a diversified portfolio. I just choose rent the place I live in.

Married and living in suburbia? Been there, done that. I like the choices I have now.

[quote=bluehairdave] Nothing to pass on to your kids in the form of an estate if you had them?
[/quote]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

My cousin owns an old house free and clear outside of New York City. She has to maintain it and is putting a lot of money into it — money that could be invested for a return on investment. She’s now putting in an elevator for old age. Her kids like to come home to visit, but they have no interest in ever living in the house.

Also, do you actually believe that, as a rule, people are passing on houses free and clear to their kids? If that were the case, what would happen to housing sales and values a few decades down the road, if each family had less than two kids?

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=briansd1]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

[/quote]

I don’t remember anything about my parents portfolio of assets. But I watched and learned a lot seeing my Dad repair plumbing and other things on our house.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=briansd1]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

[/quote]

I don’t remember anything about my parents portfolio of assets. But I watched and learned a lot seeing my Dad repair plumbing and other things on our house.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=briansd1]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

[/quote]

I don’t remember anything about my parents portfolio of assets. But I watched and learned a lot seeing my Dad repair plumbing and other things on our house.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=briansd1]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

[/quote]

I don’t remember anything about my parents portfolio of assets. But I watched and learned a lot seeing my Dad repair plumbing and other things on our house.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=briansd1]

Do your kids want an old house that needs upkeep or do they want a diversified portfolio of assets?

[/quote]

I don’t remember anything about my parents portfolio of assets. But I watched and learned a lot seeing my Dad repair plumbing and other things on our house.

[JBurkett19]

Try living in your diversified portfolio. What no bed or toilet in there? Try growing food to eat in the back yard of your diversified portofilio. Outside of water, there is no other asset more important that land. In order for land to be best utilized, you need a dwelling on it, water to it and at least a piece to grow something.

Yes, other investments over time (given the right times of jumping in and out) might pay more money. But, no other investment protects you dignity, like a place to lay your head and a toilet to go in.

[JBurkett19]

Try living in your diversified portfolio. What no bed or toilet in there? Try growing food to eat in the back yard of your diversified portofilio. Outside of water, there is no other asset more important that land. In order for land to be best utilized, you need a dwelling on it, water to it and at least a piece to grow something.

Yes, other investments over time (given the right times of jumping in and out) might pay more money. But, no other investment protects you dignity, like a place to lay your head and a toilet to go in.

[JBurkett19]

Try living in your diversified portfolio. What no bed or toilet in there? Try growing food to eat in the back yard of your diversified portofilio. Outside of water, there is no other asset more important that land. In order for land to be best utilized, you need a dwelling on it, water to it and at least a piece to grow something.

Yes, other investments over time (given the right times of jumping in and out) might pay more money. But, no other investment protects you dignity, like a place to lay your head and a toilet to go in.

[JBurkett19]

Try living in your diversified portfolio. What no bed or toilet in there? Try growing food to eat in the back yard of your diversified portofilio. Outside of water, there is no other asset more important that land. In order for land to be best utilized, you need a dwelling on it, water to it and at least a piece to grow something.

Yes, other investments over time (given the right times of jumping in and out) might pay more money. But, no other investment protects you dignity, like a place to lay your head and a toilet to go in.

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