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a href="/post/658038#comment-730079">cab says

ANSWER : 1) You can have pets in some apartments. I live in an apartment and my neighbor has 2 cats. There are plenty of rentals and plenty of pets in my neighborhood.

Ha ha ha . Cats. Yeah, we had cats from time to time. I like cats just fine.

One of the reasons we bought the house we live in is my son wanted a big dog. For 14 years we shared our house and 1/4 acre yard with a Weimaraner who was 100 lbs when he died.

cab says

If I get inspired by the Peace Corps or Scandinavian rock bands or want to go off and write a book somewhere, I can just pick up and go for several months and not be bothered with worrying about the building.

You're obviously single with no family. I am too and
If I feel like picking up and leaving which I do often sometimes 6 months or year at a time, I just leave. There's no rent to be paid on time, no landlord notes showing up at my door. I just go.
We're talking about owning outright here.

I am also a landlord so I see the renter perspective. I see potential tenants come to me almost to the point of tears because they're losing their apartment and no landlord will take them due to unemployment, bad credit or other factors.
not exactly a situation I envy.

It's very strange that the only two things that have loss of value are homes and cars. There is the gain of value of course. Like an old mustang or something. Everything else well it's just someones old unwanted stuff and no good for the most part. In new homes and cars. The prices are disimilar accross model lines and home prices. See way to much coinciedence.

If you notice the example old unwanted stuff well you set the price. Sometimes you get really good deals. Question is who's setting the prices on all the so-called new stuff. See the similarities are way to convient to dismiss. Monopoly is even a stupid word. If I broke that one down you would shout hey dude IM FREE. hahaha. Deal is I think people have been scammed from birth in a lot of this stuff. Schools even so called universties will never hand you a calculator and say hey look moron. This is what this house REALLY costs you. Hey school. Im spending all of this money in property taxes. Why don't you do me a real favor and tell me what A CAR REALLY COSTS TO MAKE. Or HOW MUCH DOES IT REALLY COST TO BUILD A HOUSE. Or better yet teach me how to build a house that I HAVE TO SPEND 30 YEARS PAYING OFF WITH MY LABOR? Takes a couple of months to build. See.

Nope I get to hear about Andrew Jackson and Anita Bryant and shit that really does nothing but confuse everyone. Which well they just really like doing. See.

DennisN says

Congress refuses to repeal the mortgage interest deduction on its face. But Congress is going ahead with a stealth repeal of the MID by the clever ruse of increasing the standard deduction.

Do you mean decreasing?

ArtimusMaxtor says

It’s very strange that the only two things that have loss of value are homes and cars.

Huh? Most of you folks are pretty smart. Do you want to rethink this statement?
Stocks' value is in constant flux, anything used is worth less than it was when new (unless there is a demand for it as vintage or collectable), new stuff with more supply than demand is priced at discount (last year's/season's merchandise), electronics have continually come down in price, anything with a "shelf life" is discounted until it sells or is discarded (food, medications, flowers).

Oh sure I guess I am pretty smart. I could bring the hachet down on that statement really, really quick. Bringing up stock market isn't really all that smart at this point. In my opinion. People are tired of being conned. So. I'll just leave that alone. See the confusion is really simple. All of this isn't complicated at all. It just complicating senario's. So people become confused again. It's really not a nice thing to do.