Curious—anyone here planning to live in an apartment for life? Or is the goal eventually a house?

[Ol’Otis]

Im getting used to the possibility of living in an apartment longer than I expected

 

[cyndaquil]

Is this a renting vs buying question or a condo vs a house question?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

No I want a house

Need to make 80k before I can get one tho

 

[Ol’Otis]

Is this a renting vs buying question or a condo vs a house question?

Renting vs buying

 

[Mastamimd]

No spouse no house

 

[Adonai]

I live in a house right now, but I wouldn't mind selling to go back to an apartment. I miss the simplicity of an apartment.

 

[Don Snow]

Condos>>>>>>>>

Build equity while not having to mow a lawn clean gutters shovel snow or be told when to throw out your trash

 

[Ol’Otis]

Condos>>>>>>>>

Build equity while not having to mow a lawn clean gutters shovel snow or be told when to throw out your trash

I’ve been saying I should start looking into condos

But Los Angeles has some ugly looking condos

 

[WIA20XX]

Dream = No Landlords, No Condo Board, and no Home Owner's Associations

 

[Don Snow]

I’ve been saying I should start looking into condos

But Los Angeles has some ugly looking condos

Once you experience living in a nice building in the right environment it’s way easier day to day, a house is a lot maintenance


Plus packages can’t get stolen cause you got a doorman

Moving furniture is easy you got an elevator

Anything get broken in the apartment, call up management and they fix it right away

My cousin in Atlanta went from a house to a condo and breh couldn’t be happier

 

[Mordith]

Condos>>>>>>>>

Build equity while not having to mow a lawn clean gutters shovel snow or be told when to throw out your trash

Mowing grass >>>>paying thousands of dollars a year in condo fees that do not build equity......

 

[USMaroon]

Also kind of depends on situation. Working in Manhattan I know people with rent stabilized apts in the best parts for literally fractions of market rent. A guy on my team, his dad lives in the West village, for roughly 600/m, has been living there since th 80s. Son finna get that apt.

I know another, upper east side for 900, 2bdrm 2 blocks from Gracie Mansion.

I'm those cases, why not? Of course, many ppl in rent stabilized apts owned properties elsewhere.

 

[cyndaquil]

Renting vs buying

Buying no question. Don't want a house? Get a condo or townhouse.
Rents and mortgage payments are way too close now to make renting long term a better option
Majority of Americans net worth are tied to their homes

 

[ItsPeople]

If you got in in the early 2000s in a rent controlled apartment where a 2 bedroom is still <$1000 I would never leave.

I rent a house from the bank but some days I wished I was renting renting. It’s a never ending project, always something to fix, clean, or do over.

 

[boogers]

it depends on the apartment, just like it depends on the house. our apartment is ok but its kind of small. while i'd rather have a house i wouldn't wanna be on the hook to a bank, either. one benefit to apartments is you can break a lease a lot easier than you can deal with a mortgage. if i had a house, i would want it on a few acres for privacy. a house in a neighborhood would be cool as long as its not full of HOA types or rednecks. but where i live people are so flagrant with the Trump worship that even people in apartments got Trump logo feces in their apartment windows.

dude in the building across the way has a wall full of trump shyt. leaves his blinds/curtains open so people can see it. i have to see it when i go for my walk at night to smoke a J/blunt (im not allowed to smoke large amounts of weed inside) i always roll my eyes when i walk by. people are jackasses.

basically im saying try not to live around cacs (flyover plains edition: impossible). i do all right financially but i doubt were gonna be moving into a house anytime soon.