More single women are buying homes

News 14 ^ | 3/29/05 | Jamie French

[technochick99]

Oh please. I bought my house when I was single. I am now divorced, but involved in a very serious relationship. My choice of living accomodations are separate from my love life.

[Modernman]

Why would a single man want to own a house to live in by himself?

Investment and tax benefits, just to name two.

[Old Professer]

Habitat for Humanity is at the forefront of this trend.

[zippee]

I had my own home when I was about 30....still do.

[Gabz]

There are some big advantages to apartment life.

Not in any of the apartment complexes I lived in......I couldn't wait to get out of the last one I lived in.

By the time I was able to find an apartment that wasn't in a complex, but in a converted mansion, I was being escorted home every evening from work because there had been so many rapes in the complex.

[grellis]

Renters DO pay property taxes, whether they realize it or not. I used to rent out our second story. When our prop taxes went up, so did rent. No landlord would set a rental price without considering prop taxes into the equation.

Well, maybe some landlords. The not so smart ones.

And mortgage interest? Nice big tax deduction every April.

[Gabz]

Neither apartment complex I ever lived in even had a pool or gym........

[SedVictaCatoni]

Maybe we could just have a Landlords vs. Mortgage Brokers Monster Truck Rally and settle this question once and for all. ;)

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Featuring a special appearance by Foreclosurusaurus, the Credit-Eating Robot!

[zippee]

There are some big advantages to apartment life.

But the big disadvantage is that you can never get ahead by paying rent. You need to buy a home ...Don't rent!!

[Gabz]

My choice of living accomodations are separate from my love life.

So were mine. I spent 4 years in apartments after my divorce, but bought a house before getting remarried. 5 years before getting remarried, as a matter of fact.

[ThinkDifferent]

But the big disadvantage is that you can never get ahead by paying rent.

Of course you can. Take the money you save not paying interest on a mortgage and invest it somewhere else. There's no need for your investments and residence to be one and the same.

[HitmanLV]

It's called 'throwing in the towel.' :-)

[Betis70]

>>There are some big advantages to apartment life.

Maybe for you. I dislike it. It's very noisy at all hours, I can't work on my car, I have to schedule my laundry duties at 1 or 2 AM so I can actually get a machine to use, parking is a freaking nightmare for anyone coming to visit, I can't make any changes to the interior space at all (no paint, no improvement in appliances).

Not to mention the apartment complex managers feel the need to leave little notices on our doors in plain view from the parking lot telling us about the 'community' activities. They usually do this on a Friday before a long weekend or a typical holiday to make sure any thieves cruising the parking lot can see who went away for the weekend.

sorry for the rant. :-)

I've had about all I can take. Time to move someplace where I can actually afford a house. *sigh*

[Monterrosa-24]

I own my own home now but now I'm a square, a domesticated married fellow with four children, a member of the bourgeoisie, and even have a tomato patch. But when I lived at the Lakes Apartments in Raleigh....wow, you wouldn't believe what I would see in the pool and the in the hot tub and...and....

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Single women who want to marry ought to at least get out of the house and circulate rather than sitting on their own green acre watching TV

Am I sensing some resentment here ... hmmm?

[CzarNicky]

My last rent was more expensive than my mortgage and property tax is now.

[Betis70]

>>Oh, I'm a single chick buying my first house - closing on May 16

Good for you!

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

It said in effect that if a woman that married by the time she's 30, she has a 65% chance of NEVER being married. At 35 years old, the likelyhood that she will never marry jumps to 90%

I find that hard to beleive. All the single 40 something women around here seem to have no problem getting boyfriends or getting married.