…was to live in it forever, why in the name of all things holy are people complaining about their property losing value? So the house is only worth $500,000 as opposed to $575,000–what’s the big deal?
People have become so caught up in obsessing over how much their homes are worth that they all seem to have forgotten the reason why people bought homes in the first place. It was to live to live in them, and generally, until you died. It was to pick that perfect house, make it into a home, and pass it down to your children. Now, in the age of house flipping and in an economy even more screwed than it was during the first depression, those who should be happy they can even afford to own a home are complaining that its value has gone down. What, was everyone planning on selling their homes this year or something? Did I miss that memo?
Call me old fashioned, but I see no point in purchasing a house if you only plan to live in it for a short period of time–that is what apartments and rental properties are for. A house you’re purchased should be your permanent dwelling, not just a bump in the road. In the beginning, people bought their homes to stay in, and couldn’t wait until they were done paying the last of their note so they could finally say, “this house is mine.” No one could take it from them, and all they’d ever need to pay would be the taxes. Why is that not still the goal of growing up and settling down?
It seems that now, to possess anything for more than two years is a faux-pas. My computers would probably be considered trash by many; my desktop ancient at one and a half years, my laptop at an archaic three. To me, these are perfectly fine machines. They have Windows XP, they do their work in a hurry, and they have so many gigabytes of space open that I’ve barely scratched their surfaces. My cellphone was top of the line, but now the RAZR has had so many upgrades since its debut, my little guy just seems silly. But it still does its job, and since all they’re doing is perfecting the wheel anyway, I have no plans of abandoning my first-gen RAZR anytime soon.
Houses get about two to five years before their owners want nothing more to do with them, and sell. Why do they want nothing more to do with them? Because they settled. Because instead of waiting until they had the money to buy the home of their dreams right from the start, they settledon one in a poor location, too far from their places of employ, ten feet away from the highway, right next door to guy with the chickens and rooster in his backyard, and all for the sake of saying they owned that little chunk of dirt. Forgive me, but if living next to the chickens wasn’t your first choice, why in the hell didn’t you wait until you found it? You only get to be a virgin home buyer once–is it so hard to make it count?
SaSu chapter seven will be delayed until Wednesday.
