\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

“Homeownership” is retarded unless you want to stay in house forever

Just do pay shit loads of interest for 7 years, sell and the...
razzle doobsian faggotry
  04/29/24
youre building equity bro
Brindle talented hell
  04/29/24
First 7 years are massively weighted towards interest paymen...
razzle doobsian faggotry
  04/29/24
House prices do and will go up forever. Borrowing to buy a ...
Spectacular rose pocket flask
  04/29/24
This is laughably wrong. House prices generally track inflat...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
Home prices double every 5-7 years
Spectacular rose pocket flask
  04/29/24
I have a friend who bought his house in 1992 for $250,000. T...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
Wrong. How could a gut renovation be less than half of the ...
Spectacular rose pocket flask
  04/29/24
32 years is a long time. He told me they spent over $150k on...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
I own 3 properties. I wasn't a retard so I bought ones that ...
overrated field
  04/29/24
I find this impossible to believe. Every house is a nightmar...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
I'm being pretty misleading. They're all apartments in a Tie...
overrated field
  04/29/24
Here is where you can be very wrong. My wife and I bought a ...
cerebral mauve incel new version
  04/29/24
...
lavender institution faggot firefighter
  04/29/24
sweet
boyish factory reset button
  04/29/24
I think you meant SWeet
cerebral mauve incel new version
  04/30/24
I rent out three of my former primary residences. Extremely ...
overrated field
  04/29/24
Owning real property and participating in the game of Amerik...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
What you're supposed to do is model all of these expenses in...
overrated field
  04/29/24
I can kind of pay my bills Insurance is a complete runaway ...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
I have you beat on childcare. I'm at over $100k / year. (10...
overrated field
  04/29/24
It's true, you should never sellcuck. If you need a bigger ...
floppy outnumbered rehab dysfunction
  04/29/24
I’ve come to accept that there is no rational option i...
Titillating crawly meetinghouse
  04/29/24
...
Aqua pea-brained wrinkle
  04/29/24
Just raise a family in an apartment complex full of governme...
exciting light corn cake
  04/29/24
this. homeownership is retarded, but not as retarded as rent...
orchid cruise ship
  04/29/24
...
racy olive crotch
  04/29/24
here in Brussels, I can't wait to return to my homeland and ...
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
Ligonier Valley?
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
yessir, 6 acres to build my falling water house near Linn R...
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
Wow. 180. I’d like to live over there too.
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
let's make it happen- Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Americana
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
I’d just prefer a simple ranch style house with a base...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
ranch style house-- u should build in Arizona https://fran...
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
I don’t want some artsy fartsy house. I want a house w...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
if u can dream it, it can happen-- only in America
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
My dream is to just go back in time and be an offshore rough...
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
hey, Jack Kerouac
Lascivious ultramarine area
  04/29/24
your dream is for your children to never have been born? yo...
Silver Provocative Persian
  04/30/24
Ok but will buying a house get me in house in the first plac...
peach stead coldplay fan
  04/29/24
if you bought a million dollar home 5 years ago it would be ...
Mind-boggling sooty prole mood
  04/29/24
Houses around here have crashed 20-30% in the last year.
Stimulating toaster
  04/29/24
wow Houston, TX, must be a real shithole then
Crimson exhilarant messiness kitty
  04/29/24
If you put 1 million in wingstop stock you’d have 4 mi...
Dun soul-stirring national security agency
  04/29/24
I bought in very late 2021 at what was near peak of the mark...
Titillating crawly meetinghouse
  04/29/24
People railing against home ownership are fucking idiots who...
Crystalline Whorehouse
  04/29/24
(Prole who bought house with 50k down payment)
razzle doobsian faggotry
  04/29/24
Rates were 3% why put more down?
Crystalline Whorehouse
  04/29/24
The house isn't the problem. It's the wife who wants you to ...
Sepia Embarrassed To The Bone Telephone
  04/29/24
Pro tip: in that case, you're the problem
Mustard motley tattoo
  04/30/24
"we need to pay $8,000 to convert a small part of our u...
Sepia Embarrassed To The Bone Telephone
  04/30/24
I paid $6000 this week to have landscaping and plumbing work...
Silver Provocative Persian
  04/30/24
These retards also don’t look at taxes. You get an exe...
Adulterous location mediation
  04/29/24
My interest rate is under 3%. Money for free.
Multi-colored House
  04/29/24
"owning a house only makes sense if you want to live in...
Flushed Bateful Resort
  04/30/24
Absolutely devastating for housemos
Mustard motley tattoo
  04/30/24


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:27 PM
Author: razzle doobsian faggotry

Just do pay shit loads of interest for 7 years, sell and then do it again at another house lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619708)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: Brindle talented hell

youre building equity bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619712)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:29 PM
Author: razzle doobsian faggotry

First 7 years are massively weighted towards interest payments. You build almost no equity unless house price only go up forever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619714)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:38 PM
Author: Spectacular rose pocket flask

House prices do and will go up forever. Borrowing to buy a house is the single best thing most people can do to build wealth. Buy as much as you can, always.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619742)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:59 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

This is laughably wrong. House prices generally track inflation. Plenty of years where the house is flat and inflation is 2%.

Homes are just sinks for taxes, insurance, maintenance, HOAs, worthless utilities, never ending bullshit, break ins, squatters, noisy neighbors, nosy neighbors, illegal neighbors. It’s just a neverending river of shit these single family homes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619815)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:02 PM
Author: Spectacular rose pocket flask

Home prices double every 5-7 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619825)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:07 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

I have a friend who bought his house in 1992 for $250,000. Today he could sell for $1,000,000. BUT, the entire house has been gutted to the studs and completely redone at a cost of like $300k. Plus all the other crap they put into it. Conservatively, they have like $700k in it. So their appreciation after 32 years works out to less than $10k per year, and it’s a lot less after you factor for inflation and opportunity cost.

Houses don’t appreciate. They just cost you a fortune. They literally empty your pockets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619836)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:09 PM
Author: Spectacular rose pocket flask

Wrong. How could a gut renovation be less than half of the amount invested in the house after purchase? Obviously couldn't. How would you even know any of this? Do better with your shitty flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619842)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:15 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

32 years is a long time. He told me they spent over $150k on an addition. Gut Reno came later at a cost of $300k. That’s $450k for the two big Renos plus $250k purchase which sums to $700k basis (and I think they did things like sprinklers, various upgrades, new Siding, new driveway, new windows, landscaping too).

$1m - $700k = $300k

After accounting for inflation it’s probably less than $200k. Over 32 years. It’s completely trivial appreciation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619867)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:10 PM
Author: overrated field

I own 3 properties. I wasn't a retard so I bought ones that didn't require any work.

Between all three, I've spent maybe $10k total over ~10+ years, at most. Just replaced some carpets, snaked a few drains, and replaces a few appliances.

You may not know this, but you're allowed to inspect a property before you buy it.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619848)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:11 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

I find this impossible to believe. Every house is a nightmare and a ticking time bomb.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619850)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:13 PM
Author: overrated field

I'm being pretty misleading. They're all apartments in a Tier 1 city.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619857)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:17 PM
Author: cerebral mauve incel new version

Here is where you can be very wrong. My wife and I bought a place in 2018 for $498k at 3.5% interest. We put $200k down. We still owe $255000 on the mortgage, but we put the house on the market this weekend (it listed Thursday) for $975,000 and we got over 25 offers with the highest being $1,050,000.

After commissions, costs and paying off the mortgage, we will walk with $753,000. Which means, we profited $553,000 in less than 5.5 years: $100,000 a year. We're moving to SC and our newly built home is coming in right at $722,000. So, we'll have no mortgage. Now, obviously this isn't going to happen for everyone, but it did just happen for us. And that's why you buy houses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620037)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:49 PM
Author: lavender institution faggot firefighter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620140)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 10:26 PM
Author: boyish factory reset button

sweet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620229)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: cerebral mauve incel new version

I think you meant SWeet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47622398)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:30 PM
Author: overrated field

I rent out three of my former primary residences. Extremely good financial move (in my case at least).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619715)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:34 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

Owning real property and participating in the game of Amerikkka is flat out highway robbery.

Taxes + Interest + HOA + Insurance + cost of upkeep on my house is about $45k

Insurance on the cars is now up to $3k (and I ostensibly own them) + another $1k in various fees for maintenance, registration, inspection

That’s $4,000 gone each month just for the right to “own” property in America

Utilities + food + transport costs like fuel, etc doesn’t come close to $4k

Childcare comes close

If I sold everything and just moved to Asia I could live on so much less

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619735)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:35 PM
Author: overrated field

What you're supposed to do is model all of these expenses in advance and only purchase a home you can comfortably afford.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619738)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:39 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

I can kind of pay my bills

Insurance is a complete runaway freight train right now. 4 years ago insurance for 2 cars was like $1200/yr. Maybe as little as $1,000. Now 3x.

My first homeowners policy was like $1800, now $6000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619744)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:36 PM
Author: overrated field

I have you beat on childcare. I'm at over $100k / year. (100% cannot afford it -- unlike my house)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619740)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:42 PM
Author: floppy outnumbered rehab dysfunction

It's true, you should never sellcuck. If you need a bigger house, just remodel the old one, or keep it and rent it out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619752)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:44 PM
Author: Titillating crawly meetinghouse

I’ve come to accept that there is no rational option in the US, everything is set up to ensure your Ruin, especially if you are a Loser. I wish I was born in France and could just live on the dole and waste away at some cafe. That would be 1000% better than trying to “maek it” in the US just so you don’t have to live in a neighborhood where you’ll be raped and killed by URMs. The US is honestly the dumbest place in the world and a terrible mistake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619761)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:46 PM
Author: Aqua pea-brained wrinkle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619769)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 7:46 PM
Author: exciting light corn cake

Just raise a family in an apartment complex full of government mandated low income residents bro

Just have your lease not get renewed at the top of the market so you are forced to move bro

Just have your rent go up 10%+ per year bro

Just never be allowed to have pets bro

Just be forced to live with the shittiest appliances in existence and never able to renovate or change anything forever bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619767)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:01 PM
Author: orchid cruise ship

this. homeownership is retarded, but not as retarded as renting forever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619822)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:26 PM
Author: racy olive crotch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619904)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:07 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

here in Brussels, I can't wait to return to my homeland and buy a plat in rural PA and play my music as loud as I like without any neighbors around to complain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619835)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:12 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

Ligonier Valley?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619853)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:14 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

yessir, 6 acres to build my falling water house near Linn Run State Park

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619864)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:16 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

Wow. 180.

I’d like to live over there too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619874)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:18 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

let's make it happen- Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Americana

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619878)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:19 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

I’d just prefer a simple ranch style house with a basement and a wood burning stove and a flat spot outside for a garden.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619881)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:20 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

ranch style house-- u should build in Arizona

https://franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619885)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:24 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

I don’t want some artsy fartsy house. I want a house with a porch and a rocker and my shotgun by my side. Maybe a glass of iced tea.

No dogs. No cats. Just me and the world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619899)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:25 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

if u can dream it, it can happen-- only in America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619900)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:28 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

My dream is to just go back in time and be an offshore roughneck or whatever. Live in a van.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619912)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:29 PM
Author: Lascivious ultramarine area

hey, Jack Kerouac

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619914)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 3:13 PM
Author: Silver Provocative Persian

your dream is for your children to never have been born? you seem like a really really great guy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47621931)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:18 PM
Author: peach stead coldplay fan

Ok but will buying a house get me in house in the first place? Have sent out hundreds of apps (I’m a litigator) but no bites so far. Houses around here run about 1.5-2 million to start but it could be a good investment to finally get out of big law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619879)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:20 PM
Author: Mind-boggling sooty prole mood

if you bought a million dollar home 5 years ago it would be $1.5m today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619886)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:25 PM
Author: Stimulating toaster

Houses around here have crashed 20-30% in the last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619902)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:04 PM
Author: Crimson exhilarant messiness kitty

wow Houston, TX, must be a real shithole then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619997)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:47 PM
Author: Dun soul-stirring national security agency

If you put 1 million in wingstop stock you’d have 4 million today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619940)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 8:33 PM
Author: Titillating crawly meetinghouse

I bought in very late 2021 at what was near peak of the market. 3.25% rate. I already have 100k in added “equity” according to estimates. If I didn’t buy this house I would still be renting in NYC for like 4000k per month. I don’t know if there was ever a good option for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47619919)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:48 PM
Author: Crystalline Whorehouse

People railing against home ownership are fucking idiots who:

(i) Are too dumb to ever account for the fact that a home is not just an investment, its consumption. So in your calculations, you have to back out what you would have paid for rent

(ii) Don't realize that a home is an amazing tool against inflation, which is why myself and many others have benefited BIGLY.

I put in about $50,000 on my house in 2019, I've saved about $70,000 in rent over those years vs my mortgage, and if I sold my house I'd net $320,000.

So all in I basically made like a 7,000% return in 5 years?

The math is obviously different with current prices and interest rates (renting vs buying is more attractive for sure), but there's still a lot of risk in renting...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620139)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:52 PM
Author: razzle doobsian faggotry

(Prole who bought house with 50k down payment)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620155)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 9:55 PM
Author: Crystalline Whorehouse

Rates were 3% why put more down?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620160)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 10:32 PM
Author: Sepia Embarrassed To The Bone Telephone

The house isn't the problem. It's the wife who wants you to work super hard so she can pay other men to do little projects at your house in perpetuity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620250)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 1:22 PM
Author: Mustard motley tattoo

Pro tip: in that case, you're the problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47621548)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 1:45 PM
Author: Sepia Embarrassed To The Bone Telephone

"we need to pay $8,000 to convert a small part of our unfinished basement into a costco pantry."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47621654)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 3:28 PM
Author: Silver Provocative Persian

I paid $6000 this week to have landscaping and plumbing work done. all of it except for taking out a tree I probably could have done myself if I had more time and energy and wasn't a retard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47622009)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 10:40 PM
Author: Adulterous location mediation

These retards also don’t look at taxes. You get an exemption for $500K in capital gains, which equates to $1MM of earned income. You should move anytime you can do this obviously (subject to being able to purchase a decent home for an acceptable price).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620296)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2024 10:55 PM
Author: Multi-colored House

My interest rate is under 3%. Money for free.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47620330)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 10:42 AM
Author: Flushed Bateful Resort

"owning a house only makes sense if you want to live in that house"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47621078)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2024 1:23 PM
Author: Mustard motley tattoo

Absolutely devastating for housemos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2...id#47621553)