Apartment Living

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Apartment Living
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Sat, 12-29-2007 - 10:49am

With all these talk about going from homes to apartments, I wondered how many people think:


1. Going from a home to an apartment is moving "down" in life. (I am not speaking of after the kids grow up and you sell your home to OWN an apartment/condo/townhouse, but a family that owns a home and then sells it to rent an apt.)


2. What are the advantages when you own something and have equity and then go to giving someone else your money to pay THEIR bills?


3. How bad would it have to be living in your home to make the decision to do this?


4. What advantages and/or disadvantages are there to living in an apartment vs living in

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Avatar for mkatherine
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:42pm

Ok here's another nugget to chew on.

Liza does better when Im' NOT there. When I'm there she'll be clingy and run to me with every imagined slight or hurt. If I leave she's in hog heaven and happy as a clam. I leave her at play rehearsals, dance classes, birthday parties, everything except soccer practice b/c it's not feasible time wise to do so. She does better without me there. it's win win.

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 08-08-2006
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:43pm

<It was that way on LI about a decade ago when your children were that age. >



Huh? A decade ago my children were 2, 0, and -2?

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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:43pm

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You're joking right?

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:43pm
I never said that as I said IME, it is not just in my "area" that I have seen
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:43pm
Yah, the ones at the houses!
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Registered: 05-14-2006
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:44pm

Limiting the amount of guests at a party is a great way to throw a party on a smaller budget.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:44pm

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. That's what we're getting at. You throw em y our way we'll throw em ours. Feed the parents filet and shrimpif you want. I. Don't. Care.

Why should YOU care if I don't feel it's the god given right of the parents to tuck in to a meal at my daughters party? I have no obligation to feed them. I always have parties from 1-3 or 2-4 so it's not a t a meal time. I have admitted it. I'm hiding NOTHING. I don't think kids parties should cost very much and there fore I don't spend much on food. So WHAT?

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:44pm
And you don't have to feed the parents if they are not invited :)
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:44pm
Same.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:45pm

So when you had a sleep over for your dd, going by your logic, the parents also stayed.....correct?


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