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If you treat your house like a rental that you rent to yourself, you can avoid a bunch of headaches - mainly because you’ve given yourself “permission” to spen
by bombcar 5mo ago
If you treat your house like a rental that you rent to yourself, you can avoid a bunch of headaches - mainly because you’ve given yourself “permission” to spend on it.
- natebc 5mo agowait ... There are landlords out there who will "spend on it"? Mine took 3 weeks to replace a broken HVAC when it was 35 degress out. 5 days to fix a toilet that when flushed dumped sewage into my downstairs neighbors ceiling. Maybe if you're treating yourself as a tenant but your run of the mill rent extracting (or worse, middle man) landlord is the cheapest creature on the land.
- bombcar 5mo agoThere are, but they're often found in places where the rent pressure isn't so great (e.g., there are many options for renters). When demand is so high or prices are fixed, everything else goes out the window; because what are you going to do, move?
- rascul 5mo agoThere are good landlords. Unfortunately many of them aren't and there's not really a good way to know before.
- harperlee 5mo agoDon't know about your landlord specifically, and I'm no landlord, but there's also a bunch of people (including homeowners) that will wait until summer starts to test and then complain about HVAC... just on peak season for HVAC maintenance, where the waiting times are long (and the price will probably be higher).
- apothegm 5mo agoOwner-occupiers in 2-6 unit buildings (who don’t have RE empires beyond that). The incentives are wildly different.
- taneq 5mo agoYeah but then I have to deal with my tenant. :P
- bombcar 5mo agoEvicting yourself and taking yourself to court could have fun Fogerty vs Fogerty vibes!
- taneq 5mo agoYou jest, but a couple of years ago I added myself to my company’s workers compensation insurance in case I get injured. If I ever do I’ll have to put in a claim against myself and hope my insurance covers it. :P
- Suppafly 5mo ago>If you treat your house like a rental that you rent to yourself, you can avoid a bunch of headaches Or you do a bunch of shitty halfass 'landlord fixes'