Have you owned a house before? Older houses need their maintenance .. but newer houses do too.

I’ve chosen to own, but there are some people that aren’t handy and are habitually nervous and maybe it isn’t for them. I met a guy yesterday that owns a house, and he rents it out with a property manager and lives in an apartment. He said “it’s nice to call a number and say ‘please change such and such lightbulb’ and then it’s done when you get off work.”

Mother in Law bought last fall, and now her old house sits on the market. She’s thinking about withdrawing it and just renting it out. I think we are quietly in a buyers market pretty deeply right now actually. So if it’s “the” house for you then disregard this, but otherwise start lowballing. Market is stagnated, and old houses cost more than the initial sticker price.