I’m happy for these other homeowners that they’ve had such a pleasant go of it but what I wouldn’t do to go back to renting! Sure, I can call someone when something goes wrong in my house, and sure the cost of a single plumbers visit to unclog something might roll into my rent but that doesn’t compute when I have to pay $5000 to fix the leak, that cost would not go to me as a renter, or at least not in such a huge amount. And of course it’s finding decent, reliable people to do the work…we have had some real doozies of contractors. And where I live and with the older houses we can afford, the foundations and plumbing are just an accepted to be rotting and going to be an ongoing expense. Real estate is affordable here and everyone owns if they have an okay income (everyone I know lives in the suburbs, as do we) so it just felt like “the thing you do” but I kinda wish we had waited or thought about it more or something.