Celebrating a surprisingly successful move into an apartment bigger and nicer, than our previous house, where we pay no rent. 🥂
Discussion
Soooo glad to have no more rent. You can't even imagine.
I hope you’ll be very comfortable.
Remember when I said we were going to move here, on Twitter? It's been a few years, since then.
We're all loving the crazy amount of storage space and NO STAIRS 🤩. Also, 2 garages, so no more windshield scraping.
Only annoying thing is that there is only one toilet, and none in the bathroom, but we might rip out the bathtub (none of us use it) and put in a toilet, or something.
Home improvements never end once you start.
Oh, we know. We completely renovated the last house we owned and it wasn't "done", until we moved out. And if we'd stayed there, we would soon have needed to replace the roof. 🙈
What drove me nuts about renting, was partly that we paid all this money and he never fixed or improved anything. We were constantly working on the house and garden, so it's nicer after us, than before us.
I now greatly prefer renovating and maintaining my own place because it is done to my standards. I'm the sort of person who cleans the grout with a toothbrush, and he left us with dripping faucets and a wasps' nest, in the attic.
The windows here are much easier to clean. And you know how I am about 🪟. Already cleaned them. Very satisfying. Can barely even see that they contain glass. 🤩
That’s really funny, the first house we bought we had to /completely/ renovate, top to bottom. It took us 13 years, and then we moved 😂 It’s frightening when I think of the money we sank into it, that was with proper double digit interest rates as well. We’re too old for that now. Next door to us is rented, and it’s not maintained at all. Wooden windows all starting to rot, it’s a shame because it’s a really nice house.
I hate seeing houses rot. There's a beautiful old farmhouse, down the street, that would make such an elegant country estate, but the people who inherited it 20 years ago, are just letting it fall apart.
Land prices are so stubbornly high, that people just sit on property they don't use and everything decays.
That’s what I was going to say, the land is worth more than the bricks and mortar. That must be one of the things with farming, if someone walked up and offered you £1M for your farm, what would you do ?
Keep it. You can lease it out to other farmers.
A lot of agricultural land round by us is up for sale. Food comes from Supermarkets, haven’t you heard ?
Legit can't buy it, around here. The village board has to basically beg farmers for years for land, to open up housing developments, even though locals are desperate for living space.
A few years ago we were walking alongside a field and there was a flock of odd looking birds. Ooh, what are they I think. Get home, look it up, lapwings. Never seen one before. Or since, it’s houses now.
Crazy to think we pay no more rent.
Congratulations. This is what winning in life looks like 🫂🫂
Nice
Rent free?!
Big quality of life success!!
Excellent news. Enjoy a healthy and peaceful life with your family in the rentless house 🍻