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Re:A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses by scarface74 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:25PM (#20235723)
When you rent, if you secure a 12 month lease, you know exactly how much you’re spending in housing over the next year.

But you don’t know what you are going to be paying in year 2,3,4,5 etc.

Our rent went up from $1300 in 2012 to $1700 in 2016. It’s now $1900/month.

Besides that, I don’t have people making noise all around me and everyone had the apartment mandated Comcast bundle including the wireless router where we had 10-15 wireless signals interfering with ours.

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Re:A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:22PM (#20245567)
> Besides that, I don’t have people making noise all around me

I had the opposite problem. When I lived in a condo previously, I had the poor luck to live next to a shitty neighbor who would have parties at 5AM on Monday morning because she didn't work. The fact is anyone can get unlucky and have a shitty neighbor, but at least when you rent if the hassle is bad enough you can much more easily up and move.

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