if you are in that situation your “good landlord” should form a cooperative and give you a share of the property since you’ve both gonna lose it otherwise
30+ years w/o a lease and a rent that has consistently been a third of the rental market value. (and no, the apartment is not a dump) Heat, hot water and half electricity included… AND off street parking. (this one is the REAL Golden Ticket)
Am at the point now where we’ve saved so much we could buy a home outright - no mortgage. Been looking at places where people are leaving from… Find something small, not too run down and put a bit of sweat equity in and fix it up. Get in and make a scene with other artists and musicians and open a restaurant or a secret kitchen dinner club… Something like that.
But when we do leave, we’re gonna jet like we’ve got rocket boosters on. Our families are finally all gone - grandparents, our aunts and uncles, parents have died (just my mom is left and she’s living in a tent off the grid in Hawaii doing the counterculture vulture thing with no internet, computer or smartphone even - just a 4G flip phone and a 12 year old Toyota pickup! She’s an absolute savage!) so we’re no longer tied to the area. Put in our 25 years of looking after our elder relatives - his and mine - and we’re so DONE with that. Doing the liquidating of family heirlooms thing - keeping a few decent items and the rest gets sold.
NGL, this city lost it’s identity when it hit Forbes “Top 10 Cities in America” list back in the mid 2000’s. We’re just hanging on and saving everything we can until we can’t hang on here anymore.
if you are in that situation your “good landlord” should form a cooperative and give you a share of the property since you’ve both gonna lose it otherwise
Oh, we got that.
30+ years w/o a lease and a rent that has consistently been a third of the rental market value. (and no, the apartment is not a dump) Heat, hot water and half electricity included… AND off street parking. (this one is the REAL Golden Ticket)
Am at the point now where we’ve saved so much we could buy a home outright - no mortgage. Been looking at places where people are leaving from… Find something small, not too run down and put a bit of sweat equity in and fix it up. Get in and make a scene with other artists and musicians and open a restaurant or a secret kitchen dinner club… Something like that.
But when we do leave, we’re gonna jet like we’ve got rocket boosters on. Our families are finally all gone - grandparents, our aunts and uncles, parents have died (just my mom is left and she’s living in a tent off the grid in Hawaii doing the counterculture vulture thing with no internet, computer or smartphone even - just a 4G flip phone and a 12 year old Toyota pickup! She’s an absolute savage!) so we’re no longer tied to the area. Put in our 25 years of looking after our elder relatives - his and mine - and we’re so DONE with that. Doing the liquidating of family heirlooms thing - keeping a few decent items and the rest gets sold.
NGL, this city lost it’s identity when it hit Forbes “Top 10 Cities in America” list back in the mid 2000’s. We’re just hanging on and saving everything we can until we can’t hang on here anymore.