Yeah, this one's all ours. We could have continued to rent, but we liked the idea of paying ten times as much for a space half as big. Sure, we can't afford premium cable any more (or eating out, or vacations, or hobbies), but now we can complain about property taxes (goddamned greedy teachers!) and chase kids off our lawn. That's worth an extra $2200 per month, easy.
Yeah, there is that. But owning your own house is an investment, whereas renting is almost like throwing your money away to pay somebody else's mortgage. In a year or two you'll have some equity in that house you can borrow off of, and then you can live however you want to live and buy whatever you want to buy; so long as you don't have any children. If you bought that house to have children in, then you can kiss all of your money good-bye right now. You won't see it again for another thirty years, and if you do, you'll pass each other like strangers in a crowd.
He won't be spending much time in the yard without supervision because he could easily jump the back fence. Also, a lot of those flower beds will be replaced with low-maintenance, dog-proof bushes.
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Douchebag.
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