RE: The Trainwreck That is Real Estate in the USA!
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Hmmmm, a lot of the things I wanted to do in the addition my husband tended to view through "resale value". There had to be overhead lights in each room, he would have fought tooth and nail over the height of the island counter, etc. And let's not talk about the bamboo flooring.. Sigh...
But I avoided most of it, because he was too sick/not here in the end. I wasn't looking at resale as this was to be an aging in place home.
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I was in the property business a long time ago when I couldn't sell a condo after I had also bought a house... and decided then and there that I wanted to neither be a landlord, not be in the house-flipping business.
My former mother-in-law was a realtor, and she was eternally "resale value, resale value, resale value" and I was "I want to LIVE here for ME, not for someone who buys this place 10 years from now." To her, it was almost unthinkable that someone would stay in the same place more than 3-4 years...
People don't even STAY in their houses when they LIVE there. They must leave to relax...what's up with that???
I guess they get so utterly wrapped up in making the next dollar that they don't have time for such things as relaxing...