100% wrong, IMO best vacation for your money.

If I understand correctly, you’re saying, “kids are no fun.”

If you look at it as Tetris, you know that eventually you’ll just lose because the game keeps getting harder. If you look at it as chess, you have to accept that you may lose to a person who’s better than you, and the special snowflake mentality can’t handle that. They need articles like this to feel better about…

I find Faraday, without having actually shown a product, to have more credibility than Elio.

“I don’t pay property taxes”

I have a $1500 mortgage payment a month for a new build 5/3 on a quarter of an acre with a two car garage in a Denver suburb. We purchased and put 20% down from the proceeds of sale of our previous house that had lived in for six years, which was purchased with $2k down.

Wait to see what happens to rents in the next 5-10 years and you will love your mortgage payment.

That was a very misleading article. The author had a conclusion and cherry picked what she needed to make it come true.

To everybody renting: Do you think your landlord is loosing money by renting the house to you? Owning rental houses is hard work and if the returns were worse than the stock market then the landlords would simply sell their properties. I own several rental properties, and my return on investment blows the stock market…

I want to buy, but I am currently renting.

As a renter you don’t have to pay maintenance, taxes, etc. That makes sense but the owner or person you are renting from does have to pay these things. Therefore, the rent is priced so that the owner covers all expenses plus more since they would like to make money. So this means you should be paying more to rent the…

Almost every argument here is assuming your landlord is Santa Claus and gifting to you the maintenance costs and their interest on their mortgage. A landlord factors all of that into the rent you’re paying and when there is no maintenance to pay, they keep the excess. You lose.

That being said, I think you do start to come out ahead once the mortgage is paid off and you don’t have those payments anymore. Case in point: my father has been mortgage free for about 25 years. I don’t think he’d be in the same situation now if he had paid rent all those years and was still paying it.

One upshot of home ownership versus renting is that you *can* fix things yourself that your landlord might want to limp along, and you can also renovate or modify to your heart’s content. It’s yours!

He will make it back in rent. Being a landlord is not operating a charity.

Also can’t put a dollar value on never having to mow the lawn, rake the leaves, or shovel the snow. Fuck all those things, apartment life for me, thanks very much

Umm, how do they suggest you lay on the floor in the middle of free fall? Good luck with that.

Wouldn’t you be in zero-g while you fall?

Still don’t get how this would even be possible. You’d be in free fall, so you’d basically be floating inside the elevator.

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