Step Away from Buying a House

[teachnlearn]

After part of spring and all of summer we failed to buy a house. Its been a long distance buy living near Sioux Falls SD and looking in the Kansas City MO area. We decided to move to a apartment, but didn't want to rent for a year. After looking all fall, we finally signed to moved into a Corporate Apartment in Kansas City KS, with a 3 month rent and extended month by month rent. The long distance trips, hotels didn't work. Signed for Jan 1 2020. We pay one price, they supply rent, utilities, cable, phone. Pretty much everything, so we aren't setting up services and closing them and opening them for a house. Moved many times, this one is going to be the first icy cold, snowy move. Putting most things in storage in SD and moving with very basics. Took a long time to find a place that would rent a few months at a time. Somewhere in the future, will finally have a place I can scroll away without worrying about neighbors above, below, each side of a wall. Going to be the first time in my life I can install something permanently and not designing some modification to adapt to a apartment to take down. Gone as far as temp water lines for ice-maker on our frig, temp garbage disposal, temp air conditioners, temp security alarms and locks.....i could go on, but that's enough examples. Somewhere along the line we will clean out our storage in SD and make our final move to MO. Guess Christmas it going to be hanging a drawn Xmas Tree on a cabinet and going to bed early on Dec 31 to move.

Dec is going to be our pick out what we NEED and pack the rest to storage. Last year we hit -25 F. I'm hoping we don't have that this year. RJF

[Rockytime]

Move to Colorado where it was a balmy six degrees this morning. Actually I would not be living here If I had to buy a house today. I have no idea what or how young people will do to purchase a home these days. Homes are so over priced so thousands of apartments are going up all around us and even those are outrageous. Just waiting for the bubble to bust! Again!

[teachnlearn]

Financial advisors write not to buy a house cause it is more cost effective to rent an apartment. Spent our lives in apartments and the cost probably is right. The life style doesn't work.

People treat the property as a garbage dump. They have no  courtesy. Noise is rampant, the halls are used for their garbage storage. Maintenance rarely fixes anything and when they do, they send the guy that has no idea what he is doing. So its left worse then they started. We actually have 3 pages of single spaced 6 pt typed edge to edge rules. They use their master keys without permission and have yearly inspections. We were told to remove our standing book cabinet cause its a fire hazard. 'If you ask why, we can't answer that one, cause they don't have an answer either' We can not hang pictures with any picture hangers and can't hang them with COMMAND STRIPS, cause they are fire hazards. My wife has light triggered migraine and we put in tension rods with light darkening curtains. .

We were served with a court summons charging us with damaging all of their windows cause we had hung these curtains.  Their Contractor tried to tell the courts that hanging light darkening curtains creates a environment that reflects the sun and does permanent damage to the windows.

We have been told to remove our door mat from the hallway in front of our door, 'Cause it prevents people from escaping during a fire.'

The wind blows around the window frame, and this is one of the better apartments in the area. The VA Hospital sent papers to the judge showing my wife's medical condition and it was dropped.

Owners putting in the cheapest piece of junk plumping and then blame the tenants on the 'damage', or it was a piece of cheap junk that didn't last a year.

We have had variations of these themes over the years. We are counting off our days to moving to a corporate apartment that is operated as a corporate hotel. Then move to a bought house.

 

Just to throw in another oddity, when we were searching for temp housing we looked at senior housing. I'm over 60. A new place in Kansas City MO is just opening and taking applications. We applied and were rejected. My wife is 55 and would have to wait to get in when she is 60. I can get in but can't bring my wife. RJF

Edited November 30, 2019 by teachnlearn

[Hawk]

WOW....What a nightmare.... I'm glad I have a small house in the middle of a few hundred acres of farm land. No one within sight to complain and I take care of all home maintenance . Less stress that way.

Good luck with the move to Mo....

Chis