Subj : Re: New to this
To : boraxman
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 08:54 pm
-=> boraxman wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ga> Ga> Indeed. If you live where I do, from now until November, those 5 day
Ga> Ga> followed by YardWorkDay and then OneDayWeekend, and repeat.
Ga> Ni> I had a house for about 5 years, which was sold when I got divorced i
Ga> Ni> 2020. I'm currently living in an apartment, and I don't miss yardwor
Ga> Ni> & such at all. I'd like to buy a house again some time if I can affo
Ga> Ni> it, but I'd like to find one that requires minimal or no yard work.
Ga> Ni> But then I still worry about house repairs & such. The "American
Ga> Ni> dream", right?
Ga> Heh, yeah... It is surely more challenging to be buying a house these
Ga> days, but that situation seems to swing back and forth some, so perhaps
Ga> it will get easier again.
Ga>
Ga> The yardwork can indeed be a pain, but I look at it like this - keeping
Ga> the house nice means that when you get old enough and it's time to
Ga> "downsize", it will have enough value (when sold) to be able to buy a
Ga> smaller place, and have quite a bit left over as a bonus. I'm not ready
Ga> to downsize yet, but it will be paid for in under two years now.
bo> Does it get easier in the US? In Australia, it just gets harder and
bo> harder and harder, and prices go up with no respite.
Not sure what you mean by "get easier"... You mean as you get older?
I'd say that depends on your planning and execution of financial goals
and being careful. Prices go up everywhere, always, I think; but
nothing new about that.
bo> I'm pretty sure our pollies are deliberately trying to make many of us
bo> homeless.
Could very well be true, and here too. The only defense is as I said
above, planning carefully and managing finances to be where you need to
be when retirement arrives. I'm about two years from that, and feel
pretty good about where I'm at.
