Apartment Living

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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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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:46pm

EXACTLY! No one's denying that fact....If a parent stays they're welcome to cake and ice cream as that's all that is ever serveed at Liza's party.

Hell last year I took Liza and ONE friend to TGIFridays for her birthday. She declared it the 'best birthday party yet' . Cheap as chips and I got to have a margarita too.

"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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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:46pm
No problem.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:47pm

Yes, they did stay awhile, not the entire night. They were invited to stay for dinner.

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:51pm

I can't believe you are asking....but it's because you are basing that judgement not on facts but simply because it's outside or your experience.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:52pm

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I'm not sure what you are talking about here b/c I've never said anything like this.

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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:52pm
That's a great thing to do.
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:53pm

With the exception of sleepovers the only food I have ever served at a birthday party was ice cream and cake.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:55pm

You mean because it disagrees with her experiences.


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:56pm
I guess when you have every parent stay, you then feed them lunch or dinner like the parties I have hosted or gone to. Out it is usually pizza and then cake. At home it is either catered, home-cooked or bbq.
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:56pm
It's TOTALLY for me - when liza has her friend and her sister over to swimg I can lie in the sun with my magazine and occassionally wave and say "girls! come get a snack!' if it's jsut me and Liza then I get 'swim WITH Me MOMMMYYYY!"
I still get in an swim with the girls but now I get breaks too. This summer we were at the beach and ran into one of Liza's best friends from school and her family. The two girlst ook off swimming, buidling castles buzzing back and forth between the two families -- and kelly and I looked at each other, picked up our books and said 'ahhhhh" LOL
"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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