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

"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

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)"
@eniko Yeah it's like arguing you prefer staying in hotels. Like OK dude, but that's just you.
@TomF yeah its like... do people not know what a preference is? Like. Sometimes people do deviate from their preferences because something else is more important, but that doesn't change the preference
@eniko @TomF Well, I prefer living in a place for free, but that’s not possible. Does that indicate the problem is that housing is not free?