Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 20, 2023

Who are these people that supposedly prefer to rent? The only good thing about renting is that, in theory, if something breaks its someone else's problem to get it fixed. But in practice what happens is that you now have an obnoxious middle man in between you and getting the problem fixed and they can just decide fixing it isn't one of their priorities and you just get to deal with shit being broken

So who. Who actually enjoys renting when they intend to stay somewhere long term? Feel like this is just some bullshit landlords came up with to justify why renting is okay and people fell for their propaganda

Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 20, 2023

"Oh but you can leave any time your lease is up and that gives you freedom"

Uh-huh. And your landlord can decide not to renew your lease any time it's up too, so that's cool. Don't think a lot of people are super into feeling housing insecure on a yearly basis

Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 20, 2023
And if you have a great landlord and or your apartment is rent controlled then that's great but that maybe means you prefer renting in that specific context but that's not exactly the default context so I feel like that ain't "I prefer renting (in general)"
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 20, 2023
Renting is, generally, fucking miserable and you don't get your money back out when you leave. Not even your fucking deposit. So I call bullshit. This whole thing smacks of "10 reasons why working from home is overrated" propaganda
Show threadMonstersGoBoomJul 20, 2023
@eniko I guess I've been lucky, I've always gotten my deposit back.
I'm renting currently because we're not planning to stay in this town in a year or two.
I'd love to buy a place when I find "home".
Show threadMonstersGoBoom
@eniko plus the last place I owned, took a LONG time to sell when I had to leave town for a job, so I had to pay rent and mortgage for a couple of months.
obviously remote work alleviates that worry, but it still burned me.
Jul 20, 2023 at 8:41pmWeb
Show threadMonstersGoBoomJul 20, 2023
@eniko I did try and buy a place a few years ago, I earned enough for the mortgage but because my partner can't work, it got complicated and they wouldn't approve us as a unit, only I was approved, but also they tried to up the costs because of that. totally fucked up situation.