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: 10-05-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:11pm

that have 10 or more kids at one time left under someone else's responsibility. My children are going to act up sometimes and I don't feel another parent should have to discipline them.


Then why is it oikay to put your kids in dc?


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Ducky

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:13pm
My grandparents sold their home of 35 years and moved into a 550 sq ft apartment. It was the best thing they could have done as
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Registered: 10-05-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:15pm

To us, everyone gets fed :)


Not only are you a better parent, your just a better person than most.


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Ducky

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:16pm
How can someone be unsuspecting when she invites my three kids AND says on the invitation (and confirmed by me when I RSVP'd) that parents were supposed to drop their kids off????
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:18pm

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Where did she say that?


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Where did she say that they weren't her priority?


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Why....to make you feel better?


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:20pm

But if you rent, you don't pay real estate taxes. Depending on your local tax rate, that could be a significant savings.


There are occasions when it is more appropriate to rent vs. own. Right now is a great time to upgrade if you can afford it b/c since the housing bubble burst, high end houses are available for a relative song. But if you got in at the height of the market and have lost a boatload, you'd probably be wishing you'd rented for a bit...

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:23pm
LOL, well, okay, yeah, maybe then. But it would have to be decent beer ;)

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:23pm

Really, most of my friends don't see children's birthday parties as an opportunity to socialize with other parents.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:25pm

I do accept it but it seems people are more social IMO at the parties and places I attend.


More proof of how great you are.


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Ducky

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 11:25pm
Perhaps her DH has a relative (from what she's said in the past, cousin Eddie could be in her IL pool) who could kidnap her boss for her like Eddie did in Christmas Vacation...
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