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

@eniko Devil's advocate / American Moment: in dense housing (like a large/multi-story apartment building), I'd rather rent than own a condo unit or something. It seems like getting all condo owners in a building to agree to fund maintenance on buildings is often impossible and results in _no_ maintenance being funded (even critical structural maintenance), instead of the bare-minimum that rental units receive. I'd rather the building I'm in not collapse.

Still sucks all around though.

@lulolwen okay but that doesn't mean you prefer to rent, just that safety considerations are changing your calculus
@eniko I guess? I guess it comes down to "prefer" vs "enjoy"- I prefer the option where the building doesn't collapse, but I definitely don't enjoy any of them.