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I'll buy a house here in the PNW and let natural shrubs and mosses take over the yard. Matter of fact, we'll just have a dirt roof.
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ive been renting the same dump inthe hood for a decade and i can afford to pay good money to watch a house v. condo fight
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condo living is nice but you will be surrounded by old people that HATE YOU and will absolutely complain to the condo board over dumb stupid trivial poo poo they wouldn't have to deal with if they moved into a home already. funny enough i never had a problem with the college-aged kids in my building they complain about mostly because they understand if you talk to them.
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OP a lot of the responses in this thread will boil down to "can you afford a house or can you afford a house?" P much all the negatives of home ownership disappear if your mortgage vs income is a good ratio, lawn care is comparatively cheap, replacing roofs, boilers, whatever, is pretty quick and painless if it's already part of your budget and so on. Horror stories mostly boil down to people who can't really afford the place they live in because there's a lot of hidden costs associated with owning a home. The benefits are obvious to anyone who has stepped foot in a house and lived in an apartment so I don't think I really need to cover those. Meanwhile condo ownership can provide a good means of getting out of the rent cycle but you're life is still gonna be largely the same as an apartment, with all the pros and cons. I've got several friends that went the condo route cause they live in bigger cities with impossibly high home ownership costs and while it's preferable to renting for them they have all the same grievances you'd expect with an apartment. If you can afford it, go for a home, if you can afford it in the conceivable future probably save for a home and hope the current inflation subsides, if your options based on where you live and your occupation are rent for forever or get a condo then go the condo. Note: my advice is terrible because my wife and I are super lucky to have basically bought the dip between the last bubble and our current one, so our mortgage and rates are negligible compared to the home value and we'd literally never be able to afford the same place if we were looking to buy now.
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3Olives owns a condo, take that as you will
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hitler owned a home, it was called the reichstag, and it caught on fire and insurance didn't cover it. not saying that's why he shot himself, but i'm not ruling it out either.
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Land, Katie Scarlet…
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a nice studio condo here costs ~450k kill me lol
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If you think home ownership is out of reach, wait til you start pricing burial plots!
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I.C. posted:If you think home ownership is out of reach, wait til you start pricing burial plots! all you gotta do is die in a way that destroys your identifiable features, and the cost becomes the state's problem
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I.C. posted:wait til you start pricing burial plots! thats not my problem
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Bad Purchase posted:all you gotta do is die in a way that destroys your identifiable features, and the cost becomes the state's problem Potter’s Field, baby! 
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I wanna get a Real Tetha and live in a space station like the jetsons and upload lasagnas. 
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who the gently caress is 3 olives
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ellasmith posted:who the gently caress is 3 olives lurk more.
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ellasmith posted:who the gently caress is 3 olives A goon who lives in a condo.
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ellasmith posted:who the gently caress is 3 olives Uh, hes a human, normal amount of arms and legs, probably has hair, a stapes in his ears, his condo interior looks bad and is decorated poorly.
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I also live in a condo and neighbors suck rear end
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Buy a house so it’s one less house Zillow or Blackrock can buy up and turn into a rental. Also buy a house so you can have a dog 🐶
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how can a lawn be so complicated? i have a lawn, it just fuckin grows. it's grass, it's good at that. biggest problem I have with the lawn is right now a tulip has somehow managed to appear in the middle of it and I have to decide whether I'm going to mow around it (because it looks nice) or just say idgaf and cut it.
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big piles of grass are the most work for the worst look possible on top of being bad for whatever tiny amounts of wildlife are still riding along with us to the apocalypse hire people to get rid of all your grass and replace it with rocks and native plants in a way that looks good and requires like 1/20th the maintenance of constantly mowing poo poo or do it yourself if you have a lot of spare weekends and willpower.
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Hammerite posted:how can a lawn be so complicated? i have a lawn, it just fuckin grows. it's grass, it's good at that. Is there somewhere else in the yard you can transplant it to? Seems a shame to chop it.
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Mowing a lawn is one of the things I miss most about home ownership. It was always such a calming experience. Lawn and plant care in general rules. Buying a small condo next month, but due to the layout it only has one shared wall, with no one above/below me. Can’t loving wait. Done with this apartment nonsense.
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:A really good Home Owner's Association is a great place to start, and then use that as a baseline for what you invest in from there. Absolutely do not follow this advice. HOAs are the most tedious rear end bullshit. You're essentially paying fees on top of your mortgage to live in a community full of busy body dipshits.
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Peggy Edson posted:Absolutely do not follow this advice. HOAs are the most tedious rear end bullshit. You're essentially paying fees on top of your mortgage to live in a community full of busy body dipshits. 
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fishing with the fam posted:Mowing a lawn is one of the things I miss most about home ownership. It was always such a calming experience. Lawn and plant care in general rules. You're a loving loser
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Peggy Edson posted:Absolutely do not follow this advice. HOAs are the most tedious rear end bullshit. You're essentially paying fees on top of your mortgage to live in a community full of busy body dipshits. do you own a home? because lol if you're just barking when the "someone mentioned HOA" bell rings
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:do you own a home? because lol if you're just barking when the "someone mentioned HOA" bell rings Yes
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and its not in minecraft?
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You can get homes in final fantasy 14 too not just minecraft
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20 Blunts posted:You're a loving loser Looks like someone could use a calming pruning routine.
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sweet thursday posted:Condos are poo poo. Buy a house
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:do you own a home? because lol if you're just barking when the "someone mentioned HOA" bell rings Check out mr president of the HOA here lol
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owning a condo seems so weird. it's like owning something that's never actually yours and is basically a big apartment slammed up against someone elses and then take everything bad about an HOA and multiply it without even the normal recourse of burning everyone's homes and families down if things don't go your way, since their condos are glued to yours
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Nooner posted:Check out mr president of the HOA here lol Can you point to the Barbie Dream House where the HOA touched you?
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with the cost of living increases my current plans are to go live in a ditch OP
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fishing with the fam posted:Looks like someone could use a calming pruning routine. i worked as a professional arborist for 7 years its not that i think youre a loser, i just want to drop a big 6 foot oak log right in the middle of your lawn from 50 feet in the air
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Khanstant posted:owning a condo seems so weird. it's like owning something that's never actually yours and is basically a big apartment slammed up against someone elses and then take everything bad about an HOA and multiply it without even the normal recourse of burning everyone's homes and families down if things don't go your way, since their condos are glued to yours not like you can ever own a house either you have to pay taxes on it forever
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Is there somewhere else in the yard you can transplant it to? Seems a shame to chop it. I don't have much confidence in my ability to touch a plant without causing it to wither and die, but I could try
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I live in an apartment which is basically the same as a condo except I have a landlord and I can't sell my apartment when I decide to move. Also paper thin walls so I hear all the fighting and loving of my neighbors.
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