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Also, in 99% of rentals I've seen, the landlords put in the bare minimum to keep tenants there and paying high rents. Homeowners tend to spend money on their ho

• paganel 10y ago
  I'm now writing this from a rental apartment and it looks quite nice, it's certainly as nice as I would have arranged it had it been my own. Granted, you can't go wrong with Ikea, some nice German white appliances and generally keeping it as simple and functional as possible. I'm also living in Europe.
  • ygra 10y ago
    One thing you usually can't do, though, is rearrange walls. While very much a proponent of renting vs. buying (I'm in Germany), sometimes the layout of flats is atrocious. We have a tiny kitchen with barely enough space for a single person to work in, a gigantic living room with mostly windows and no walls to put shelves against, and despite it being 90 m² it's only three rooms which will likely prove problematic once we have kids above a certain age. Sometimes I wonder how such layouts are created. Presumably by people who don't have to live there. Or live a very different life (eating out vs. cooking, maybe). That's one thing you can do better when building a house, although when buying one you could probably change it at great expenses as well.