Not off topic- is renting addictive?

[barnaby33]

I wouldn’t say I live in a dump in Northpark, more that I inhabit it. I’m addicted to cheap rent. 900 a month and I can walk most anywhere I want and I ride to work.

Hopefully the RE train wreck gets bad enough to allow me to form an addiction to a lovely home, not just a compromise home.

Renting does present you with more options, but even with lots of job changes and several moves in the last 8 years, I still live basically in the same area.

Josh

[CA renter]

I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
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Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! 🙂

[CA renter]

I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! 🙂

[CA renter]

I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! 🙂

[CA renter]

I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! 🙂

[CA renter]

I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! 🙂

[an]

[quote=CA renter]I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! :)[/quote]
What happen when you’re only throwing away $20,000 out the window as a home “owner”? Would you still be addicted to renting?

[an]

[quote=CA renter]I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! :)[/quote]
What happen when you’re only throwing away $20,000 out the window as a home “owner”? Would you still be addicted to renting?

[an]

[quote=CA renter]I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! :)[/quote]
What happen when you’re only throwing away $20,000 out the window as a home “owner”? Would you still be addicted to renting?

[an]

[quote=CA renter]I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! :)[/quote]
What happen when you’re only throwing away $20,000 out the window as a home “owner”? Would you still be addicted to renting?

[an]

[quote=CA renter]I am NOT at all addicted to throwing thirty grand a year out the window.
_______________________

Sure beats throwing $120,000 out the window as a home “owner”!!!!! :)[/quote]
What happen when you’re only throwing away $20,000 out the window as a home “owner”? Would you still be addicted to renting?

[TuVu]

We always rented till 1986/87 (can’t remember; senior moment) when we got a really good deal and bought. Sold it in 1996 for $50K more than we paid. We were in hog heaven about that and when I hear about the last downturn being in the early, mid-90s, I am puzzled. I don’t remember anything about that in the mainstream media (not surprising, I guess). Internet was really not available to the masses at that point.

Rented a really nice place (apt.) for 11 years, but what really bugged us was property mgmt found an excuse to come into our apt. at least twice a month (check smoke detectors, change the A/C filter–like we couldn’t do that simple thing ourselves). I’m really big on privacy issues. We weren’t operating a meth lab, growing marijuana, etc. Middle class, middle age.

[TuVu]

We always rented till 1986/87 (can’t remember; senior moment) when we got a really good deal and bought. Sold it in 1996 for $50K more than we paid. We were in hog heaven about that and when I hear about the last downturn being in the early, mid-90s, I am puzzled. I don’t remember anything about that in the mainstream media (not surprising, I guess). Internet was really not available to the masses at that point.

Rented a really nice place (apt.) for 11 years, but what really bugged us was property mgmt found an excuse to come into our apt. at least twice a month (check smoke detectors, change the A/C filter–like we couldn’t do that simple thing ourselves). I’m really big on privacy issues. We weren’t operating a meth lab, growing marijuana, etc. Middle class, middle age.

[TuVu]

We always rented till 1986/87 (can’t remember; senior moment) when we got a really good deal and bought. Sold it in 1996 for $50K more than we paid. We were in hog heaven about that and when I hear about the last downturn being in the early, mid-90s, I am puzzled. I don’t remember anything about that in the mainstream media (not surprising, I guess). Internet was really not available to the masses at that point.

Rented a really nice place (apt.) for 11 years, but what really bugged us was property mgmt found an excuse to come into our apt. at least twice a month (check smoke detectors, change the A/C filter–like we couldn’t do that simple thing ourselves). I’m really big on privacy issues. We weren’t operating a meth lab, growing marijuana, etc. Middle class, middle age.

[TuVu]

We always rented till 1986/87 (can’t remember; senior moment) when we got a really good deal and bought. Sold it in 1996 for $50K more than we paid. We were in hog heaven about that and when I hear about the last downturn being in the early, mid-90s, I am puzzled. I don’t remember anything about that in the mainstream media (not surprising, I guess). Internet was really not available to the masses at that point.

Rented a really nice place (apt.) for 11 years, but what really bugged us was property mgmt found an excuse to come into our apt. at least twice a month (check smoke detectors, change the A/C filter–like we couldn’t do that simple thing ourselves). I’m really big on privacy issues. We weren’t operating a meth lab, growing marijuana, etc. Middle class, middle age.

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