All those costs are, of course, baked into the rent. Every building deteriorates and needs maintenance whether you rent or buy.
Right now we have a large 15 year old pergola made Douglas Fir that is rotting away, the house needs painting, we need new gutters. Ugh. Last winter we lost a lot of plants (as did everybody in North Idaho) so there was a lot of time and expense fixing the landscaping.
The people who sold us the house preferred to play golf all the time and didn’t do a lot of maintenance. I can’t stand things that are falling apart or at the end of their lives, so I’m always fixing, improving, updating, etc.
Maybe the worst part of owning a home is you are a slave to it. It’s not only an endless money pit, but it’s the biggest time suck imaginable. Good thing I never got into golf!
That’s true. It’s just frustrating spending money on those things. Lol.