Apartments In Suburbia

[jfre81]

I think that density is the real culprit.

Of course where more people live there will be more instances of crime. It will be more spread out in low-density areas, not that it will be absent from them.

I don't know, for what I need right now, what I do for a living arrangement is just fine with me. If I have the need to own something I'll own some stock. As it is, the stock market is swirling a little higher than the housing market in the toilet bowl that is the US economy right now. Not that I don't want to eventually own my own place, but it'll be when I can own something that doesn't own me. Anything that's advertised as being "cheaper than renting" really isn't, and whatever you're signing your name to is going to eat you alive in the long run. I think that's the lesson we can learn from the housing crisis. Speaking of which, there will more than likely be more apartment developments going up if large amounts of people are losing their house. The alternative would be that they can just live on the streets or squat in the abandoned houses and steal your stuff from there

[cnote]

So. Shall we get over this landed gentry thing? Because we all know you're this close to being upside down on your mortgage anyway.

Responding to genaralizing all apartment dwellers by generalizing home owners...sticks and stones, rubber and glue....

naner naner naner!

It was funnier when Brewster played to the stereotype...

Try visiting somewhere else on the planet where there is no such thing as middle or even upper middle class home ownership of any sort.

Or visit Cuba or old communist Russia, or any other socialist paradise where homeownership doesn't exist!!!

hmmm...does home ownership really exist in Texas...I mean, if you can't pay your property taxes, lookout!

Edit: typed Russia, needed to add that is was old Russia...

[TheNiche]

hmmm...does home ownership really exist in Texas...I mean, if you can't pay your property taxes, lookout!

I've argued before that property taxes ensure that you never really buy or sell a home, just the rights to lease it from the government.

[jfre81]

I've argued before that property taxes ensure that you never really buy or sell a home, just the rights to lease it from the government.

My annual rent is about on par with the property taxes on a $250-300K house, depending on exemption status. And my rent includes maintenance.

There are a lot of bad apartments/landlords out there, but there are some renters who have a pretty good deal, especially with the low rents here compared to other major cities, and especially considering that landlords are paying the same tax rates on their property as everyone else.

[missmsry]

People who buy homes in suburbia have to realize that all the open areas between you and the freeway are first going to filled in with apartments, then malls, and finally strip centers along the feeder roads. Did you think they would be parks or green areas?