• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    Excluding mortage, the montly cost of owning my house is 275€ which includes water and electricity.

    That’s also excluding regular maintenance or emergency repairs that a landlord would be (often reluctantly) responsible for. It is also possible to do big, expensive, necessary renovations on a house and have it hardly affect the value at all.

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      1 hour ago

      It is also possible to do big, expensive, necessary renovations on a house and have it hardly affect the value at all.

      Isn’t this kind of irrelevant unless you’re a house flipper? If you own a house and make renovations to it, it is because you find some practical value in it.

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      55 minutes ago

      My mortage payments for one year would cover all maintenance I’ve done to the house during the 8 years I’ve lived here including an entire bathroom remodel. Obviously someone less handy would need to hire someone to do the jobs I’ve done myself so that helps a little with the costs, but still. The maintenance costs for my house aren’t even in the top 5 expenses I have.