My salary didn’t change at all, but homes went up 82%. The money I saved for a down payment and my salary no longer are good enough for this home and many others. This ain’t even a “good” home either. It was a 200k meh average ok home before. Now it’s simply unaffordable

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    18 days ago

    Y’all realize this is a bubble, right? I almost feel sorry for these investors, gonna have their ass handed to them in the coming decade.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
      261·
      18 days ago

      If Big Macs, houses, gas and college tuition all went up, it’s time to realize these are not all in bubbles and instead realize due to inflation your salary has been halved.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      The rental aspect isn’t a bubble. Until they start viciously taxing single-family home rental, home prices are going to stay high because they’re not being bought as homes but as assets for rent-seeking.

      • BigTrout75@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        17 days ago

        Bought a house 5 years ago. Cheaper than renting and equity says I made 100k. It’s good.

        It’s just lame how expensive they are now. BTW, they were to expensive 5 years ago too.

        • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          17 days ago

          Is it though? My understanding is it’s more complicated than “simply better”. You need to account for property tax, home repairs, lack of mobility, housing market, etc.

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            17 days ago

            The main downside is you have to pay closing costs to move. That means you should plan to stay in the home at least a handful of years or else you’d lose money likely. But with the market the way it is, get a house ASAP cause its going up like a roller coaster.

            I bought mine 5 years ago and its gone up 50% in value since then.

          • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            My mortgage is significantly less than my last apartment down the road. $2700 vs $2100. Same size living space (1000sqft, 2bed), an extra basement, and I get to live in a marginally more affluent area. That difference in monthly payments more than covers monthly housing maintenance costs. And property tax is already included in that $2100 mortgage, which is how it is usually handled in my state.

            And you get equity instead of throwing away your income to a faceless real estate corporation for no gain. Owning a house is 100% better in every way, unless you need to quickly move for some reason.

            But even then, it’s rare to see a house be on the market for more than a month, MAYBE two before getting sold. You can move out on a couple months notice, instead of having to wait for your annual lease to run out.

            But when you do move, you sell your house for ✨ profit ✨ because the housing market only goes UP for some retarded reason.

            I’ve helped three friends and coworkers navigate buying their first house in the past couple years. They are all better off financially for it.

        • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          There are advantages I’m not actually culpable for all of the maintenance of my property my actual rent right now is just about on par with anybody who is going to be paying to purchase their house and granted I’m not actually gaining anything as far as property value I also didn’t have to come up with a down payment or jump through hoops and try and get the house in the first place and very safe in my position and I’m very capable at this point after having lived here for many years landlord hasn’t asked for a new lease in the last couple years so I could actually walk away at any moment… there are benefits but they’re few