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Even aside from the many places where there has been a clear financial advantage to home ownership, a core value that drives desire of home ownership is stabili
by Tiktaalik 2y ago
Even aside from the many places where there has been a clear financial advantage to home ownership, a core value that drives desire of home ownership is stability of tenure. The control over ones destiny and the nigh impossibility that one could be forced to move has strong value.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoThat "control" is mostly a fantasy. I own an appartment and when I found mold damage I wasn't able to just fix it, I had to take the housing association to court and fought with them for 2 years. It's now fixed and I'm trying to sell the appartment and nobody wants to buy it. Then I read articles like this and it just makes me laugh at the absurdity of it.
- gwbrooks 2y agoIn the U.S., only about 30% of homeowners are subject to housing associations. I get how that seems odd if you live in a big city, a multifamily building, etc. -- associations and their problems are ubiquitous there. But it's not the experience of most American homeowners.
- madmask 2y agoIndependent house is the way
- carlosjobim 2y ago> nobody wants to buy it. Of course there are tons of people who want to buy it, but not for the price you are demanding. You are unrealistic about price.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoGreat! Why don't you tell me what I should price it at, then?
- carlosjobim 2y agoGo lower on price until somebody wants to buy it. That's how buying and selling works.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoNo, that's not how it works. The housing market is not like the stock market. Houses are not fungible assets. I could list my house for $1 today and by tomorrow no one would have even made a single phone call to enquire about it. A house is not sold until a motivated buyer is found, no matter how low you drop the price.
- carlosjobim 2y agoYou have made up your mind. I gave you the answer, but you are not obliged to accept it.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoI explained to you pretty clearly why you are wrong. If you want to believe in this fantasy that housing market is just like any other market, I can't really stop you.
- carlosjobim 2y agoMaybe if you argue with people who don't want to buy your real estate, they will finally give in and buy it for the price you demand? In a way, I think this exchange illustrates very well the problems with the real estate market and housing.