I can’t say that I’m much more of a fan when it comes to renting than I was when I was in my 20’s.
Actually, renting does have its benefits after having spent the last thirty years as a homeowner.
I don’t have to mow the lawn or take care of the yard at all. And when something doesn’t work right, all I have to do is call the rental office. That’s the situation from at least the next six months for my wife and I. We chose to rent an apartment after selling our family home. Once we got done upgrading the HVAC equipment along with all the other things that had to be improved and sold the house, we were spent. There was no way that we were up for finding the right house once we went through thirty years of stuff and moved out of that house. Wow, that was a lot tougher emotionally than I thought it was going to be. But I’m glad all that is behind us. Renting though has come with a certain amount of adjustment. Having people sharing walls who aren’t family members is an adjustment for sure. That’s a level of privacy that I wasn’t exactly prepared to give up. I wasn’t pleased with the state of the HVAC equipment either. It’s really old and didn’t run right all Winter. Thankfully, we live in a region where the weather doesn’t require a lot of heating demand from the heat pump. The experience this Winter with the heating though has impacted the way I’m approaching the Summer. I just decided to go around the handyman the rental office always sends out for HVAC service. Instead, I had our old HVAC professionals come out and do an air conditioning tune up on this old HVAC equipment.