Sinistar said:
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Being more serious for a bit - I rented for many years before buying a home. All I can say was that all that rent was a waste of money and time. I never had any freedom to do projects that required more space. It was always a pain to store larger stuff (yep, even had dirtbikes for years).
And bringing the topic back towards being DJ and busting the socio-matrix programming we've all be fed. A few common themes I see again and again are basically rationalizations / justifications along the lines of "I don't want to buy a place until I get married" or "Having a house will take all my time" (or some BS like that). Huge mistake. How many guys and women out there are waiting just for this reason. Then when they turn 35 and get married they are buying that first house and if they're lucky they've got 5% down because they were blowing the rest on credit cards and crap.
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And one more thing - having too much space and being worried about cleaning it is another farce (rationalization / justification). Close up the unused rooms. They'll be ready to go when company comes over. And if you have the space and can tolerate it, rent to a roommate. The only problem with too much space is that so many people out there (guys and women) are such disgusting pack rats and consumers and buy so much crap and keep it.
Buy a home sooner than later. ....
So much gold here, Sinistar, props.:yes:
Paying money for something you'll never own is a bad investment. Period. There are VERY few exceptions.
So, every time you sign a rent check... WASTE OF MONEY.
It's called "Renter's prison". You can't afford a home because you throw money away on something you'll never own. That money could be going to YOU, not the guy who owns the building you rent. When was the last time you heard someone's rent WENT DOWN? Right, probably never. But, you HAVE heard of people making the last payment on their homes,
haven't you?
Sure, there is a certain amount of upkeep, but, the pros of owning a home far and away out number the cons. No people fighting next door, no fat ƒuckers upstairs making the ceiling squeak, no door slamming, no cops coming if your girlfriend is a screamer, no little storage area, none of that "shared area" bullsh¡t.
The way to do it is to stay at home as long as possible while you save for your down payment, then move out and directly into your own home - skipping renting altogether. Do people do that?
And, speaking of "shared area" bullsh¡t, owning a home by yourself means that (and I speak for myself) you don't have someone trashing your place and not picking up after themselves. My place stays spic-and-span because I clean up after myself. And, once I clean up after myself, THE PLACE STAYS CLEAN.
Oh, and Sinistar is right on the money: people, if they have space, will fill it with crap they don't need or use. Think he's making it up? I know everyone here has driven by a place where the garage door is up. How many of those places had no cars in the garage, just boxes of crap? How many had one car in a two car garage, but the other half is full of crap?
Packrat, impulse-buying consumers make me laugh. Sheep.
Buying crap to stuff in your apartment is just more stuff to move. Not only that, but more stuff to get beat up and/or destroyed during the move. But nobody wants to see that all their nice "stuff" only makes their lives harder.
