Not sure if this is just ingrained "American Dream" mentality but I want to get away from landlords and buy my own house. Partly this is so I can have my own space to work on my own projects, be messy, grow weed, walk around naked, etc. Lately this is looking like a real possibility since I've paid off my college debt and started saving money for a down payment. I'm also expecting house prices to fall in the next year as the economy implodes.

Despite all that, housing is still really expensive where I live and I probably wouldn't be able to afford a house without a partner or a roommate paying part of the mortgage. My romantic prospects aren't looking too good and I really don't want to be a landlord. And I don't know how I would feel buying a foreclosure. Not to mention I'd be locked into a 30 year mortgage that won't be paid off until after climate change has forced us all to migrate to Nunavut.

Tell me chapos, what's the moral thing to do here? Should I keep renting? Buy a house and try to be an "ethical" landlord? Move in with the next woman I meet after the 2nd date? Go join a commune/cult?

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    Ok cool so if I have a single room in my house that I don't absolutely need then homelessness is my fault 🙄. I could also be working instead of posting so that I could earn more money to donate to any number of worthy causes so that makes me responsible for everything from world hunger to human trafficing. Or maybe, instead of expecting individual proles to solve structural problems, we could try actually assigning blame to the system and the people who designed it the way it is to serve themselves.

    And I do have my reasons. My roommates and I have been looking at moving and one possibility we've considered having one person buy a place and working out a deal where the rest of us move in and rent. Since we may not always want to stick together, it doesn't really make sense for us to all be in on it. I wouldn't really have a preference in that scenario, except I might prefer to rent so that I wouldn't have to deal with all the hassle. Apparently Chapo thinks that if we did that then whichever one of us ended up in the role of having their names on the paper would be a horrible bastard exploiting the others, for some reason.

    Another possibility was another friend who's married with kids was offering to let me move in, in exchange for doing the babysitting I get paid for now for free. I don't know if that's different somehow because I'd be paying with unpaid labor instead of with money?

    I just think it's really dumb to condemn stuff like that or stuff like OP was suggesting just because you want to avoid the stain of being a landlord, without regard to the actual conditions involved. It's a very meme-level analysis imo.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        Getting the wall because I decided to let someone move in and split my mortgage instead of using the room for a hobby or some shit

        I am once again asking you to please go outside, like, one time.