Note that there are irrecoverable costs to owning your housing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Golcxjpi8
See also https://lemmy.world/post/23582960
At least you’re still your own landlord after everything’s said and done.
And I don’t get towed after a surgery, or after a (potential) snowfall at 8am, or need written and signed consent to have friends over (parking), or have to sign a release of use of likeness, or pay $5 for a load of laundry, or be not allowed to film/record in my apartment (if ANY public area is in the video, including outside the window), or not be allowed to have the “wrong color” curtains, or not be allowed to have anything on the deck/pattio (of my unit) etc. Etc. Etc.
Edit: Grammar
They must not be too big to dissuade people from investing in real estate even as prices reach record levels.
i… dont get it
Losing half your income on rent does to your mental and physical health is comparable to what Godzilla is about do to that woman.
i… get it. i was on a train way off to the races
My guess is she’s not gonna have enough for the copay when shit hits the fan.