Is it worth it to rent a house instead of an apartment? Assuming you live alone

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>>60681311
more efficient for storing images

>>60681245 (OP)
If it's not too expensive relative to renting an apartment or a mortgage, and it's not too big that it's a nightmare to maintain, then yeah it's worth it to not have to share walls.

>>60681245 (OP)
i made this pepe

>>60681245 (OP)
I'd rather live in a dump of a house in the countryside than a nice apartment building.

Tried the apartment thing once and I hated it.
>Be me, a little over a decade ago
>Same day I graduated highschool I was moving into an apartment
>First month met the majority of my immediate neighbors
>Only neighbor that seemed normal did his best to avoid socialization at all costs
>I quickly learned apartments attract a certain type of people

No thanks. Never again. I'd rather live out of my van. My mate had an apartment ~30m away in a completely different small town and the same exact characters existed at his as well.
>My mate was apart of the weird apartment community

>>60681338
>>60681453
Is $1000 extra per month worth it? That's how much it would cost me. Otherwise that's another 1k I'm dumping straight to BTC. I just hit 30, so it got me thinking if I want to keep sharing walls and not having a dog (since there's no doggy door and I dont want to take it out every time)

>>60681245 (OP)
I live alone and rent a 50m2 apartment. It's more than enough for me.

>>60681245 (OP)
What do you need the space for? Do you need the garage to work on hobby cars or some shit? It's the secondary reason that is probably the bigger waste of money than the actual rent.

I mortgage an apartment at a comfy fixed 3.5 rate because renting is probably the worst thing you can do

>>60681245 (OP)
For me no. It's much easier to figure out if an apartment landlord is good or not, and what you see is what you get.

My current building is nice and quiet, has good amenities like a gym and a roof deck, and if something breaks or I have a problem I talk to someone and it gets fixed.

Last place I lived the landlord was neurotic, coming over unannounced all the time, kept trying to get me to abide by weird stipulations that weren't in the lease (because she "didn't think of them at the time"), and of course would slow walk every single repair, and would do it extremely poorly.

Is renting a house always like that? Of course not. But it's hard to know until you've already signed the lease and it's too late. It's usually very obvious if an apartment building is poorly maintained. Apartments are always showing off to prospective tenants so they can't gussy it up to look nice for you because someone like you walks through every day. Even then, any apartment building with more than say 30 units will almost certainly have reviews you can find online.

I’m living in. My own house and am based because I lucked out after a couple rotten experiences with shit roommates. Good things come to those who are patient!!!!!

Apartment losers are the worst. They knock on my walls whenever I try to use my soundbar. Fuck off losers it's 3 pm