I've never mowed the lawn once in any apartment i owned.
Weed pulling, leaf blowing, snow shoveling, edging, fertilize, cleaning out gutters, trimming, raking, aerating, mulch management, etc etc.
damn son you ever really own a home? I said my time took 3 hours a week, but a 400k house with more property, yah i can see it taking 10 hours.
So even at 3 hours a week its a tremendous amount of $
I won't even go into pool maintenance because if you have to even ask a question about maintenance, i can't imagine you know about pool maintenance. What a cluster fuck owning one, especially in ground.
Sorry you can't find free boxes and did not bother to save the boxes from all your prior moves planning for the future.
Failed to mention $8 dollars additional cost of a moving truck i mean really? You got me now, totally bad faith poster here!!! /s
Because my time is valuable and it takes way less of it with a rider mower? Raising a kid at the time so it made it the right choice.
Front yard was also .55-.65 with no shade. Was a nightmare in the summer even if you woke up early or mowed it late. the design on the property was shit, no idea why they did not place the house about 3/4 close to the street and enhanced the back yard.
As for shoveling, L shaped driveway in New England. Yah it never "doesn't take all that much time".
As for the property, what are you expecting me to do with it that the landowner won't let me? they have open space for play and a BBQ pit for cookouts. Never has anyone had a problem using the space for standard things home owners use space for.
right and it was included in my calculations. its not like i took my rent and then took out 50 dollars for heat then compared it to the housing cost. Not sure what you are trying to do here?
or you end up with a house that needs two roof replacements. I'll take your tact, if you buy a house with a newer roof you can expect to pay more and it will be reflected in the price of the house....
Sorry but the abuse of the roof was done by mother nature in good old new England.
Welcome to new England and NY.
NYC would all depend on assessed value of the property and its classification. Property taxes in NYC are really not that horrible vs the outlying counties and some counties in upstate NY. (lived in NY/NYC/LI for first 25 or so years)
the relative averages of property taxes in NYC vs say CT or NJ/NY suburbs could be as much as 150-200% difference. Its a strange thing NY the further you go away from the city the more expensive property taxes get. The opposite of what most people believe because NYC is always expected to be sooooo expensive.
Nassau $460,700 $10,000+ 2.11%
New York $944,600 $8,980 0.95%
Suffolk $386,800 $9,157 2.37%
The average effective property tax rate in the Big Apple is just 0.88% – more than half the statewide average rate of 1.69%. In fact, many New York counties (outside of New York City) have rates exceeding 2.50%, which is more than double the national average of 1.07%.
CT
County Median Home Value Median Annual Property Tax Payment Average Effective Property Tax Rate
Fairfield County $422,300 $7,393 1.75%
Hartford County $237,700 $5,430 2.28%
Litchfield County $251,500 $4,829 1.92%
Middlesex County $284,900 $5,565 1.95%
New Haven County $246,700 $5,744 2.33%
New London County $239,000 $4,425 1.85%
Tolland County $251,300 $5,458 2.17%
Windham County $198,000 $3,671 1.85%
NJ + NY
https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-jer...tax-calculator
https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-yor...tax-calculator
So its not something super rare, it effects what 50 million people in this area?
Never said it was super amazing and where in the world did you live that your landlord controlled your temperature, Moscow??. I was using the math relative to my example never meant for it to be the end all. Hell i know outright living in a whole lot of states i could cut my rental cost in half by owning a home easy. Of course, jobs.....