- Mar 22, 2013
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I made this thread recently about buying an apartment, living in it and putting it up for sale shortly after buying - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/buying-apartment-and-putting-for-sale-at-inflated-price.1036785/
I made that thread assuming I'll buy an apartment. Here I want to ponder with you guys whether or not I should buy an apartment, in order to live in it.
I've been working online for 5 years. Started with nothing, learned a lot, did a lot of shit, worked mostly as a transcriber for about 2,5 years, and selling digital products online for the other 2,5 years. I have other little baby incomes here and there, but those were/are my main sources of income.
The first 2,5 years were hard, I was barely getting by. In the past 2,5 years I saved about $25,000 dollars. I lived EXTREMELY frugally to save that amount. I pretty much had no life for most of that time. I had to pay rent and to live in the meantime and, you know, dentists and shit that comes up. But I saved on everything.
I want to buy my own apartment.
Here are some of my reasons why I should do it:
1) Peace of mind. No one else has a key, no one can come in and mess with your stuff, you don't have to pay rent monthly. It's MINE, and I am God here haha. Peace of mind. I've been living with parents renting and then alone renting, and bad shit can happen when you have a landlord. Anyone who's rented and changed a few places knows what I'm talking about.
2) Take the money I have in the the bank and on Paypal and on me, and put it all in 1 place (the apartment itself). I feel that a safe "parking" for the money. Unless, like, I don't know, communists come to power and take peoples shit from them
3) Another good reason is to stop paying rent! I'll save about $2000 on rent a year. Taxes on the property, considering the size mine would be, is peanuts. This is a golden reason to do it.
4) I also have a bit of a chip on my shoulder. My parents rented, I rented whenever I lived alone. I never owned my own place.
5) After buying the apartment I could list it for sale online at a higher price. If it sells, I make bank. Shit, I could probably make a free blogger just for selling the apartment and rank it on the first page for people searching for an apartment in this city and get hits.
Any reasons why Not to do it? Any thoughts?
I made that thread assuming I'll buy an apartment. Here I want to ponder with you guys whether or not I should buy an apartment, in order to live in it.
I've been working online for 5 years. Started with nothing, learned a lot, did a lot of shit, worked mostly as a transcriber for about 2,5 years, and selling digital products online for the other 2,5 years. I have other little baby incomes here and there, but those were/are my main sources of income.
The first 2,5 years were hard, I was barely getting by. In the past 2,5 years I saved about $25,000 dollars. I lived EXTREMELY frugally to save that amount. I pretty much had no life for most of that time. I had to pay rent and to live in the meantime and, you know, dentists and shit that comes up. But I saved on everything.
I want to buy my own apartment.
Here are some of my reasons why I should do it:
1) Peace of mind. No one else has a key, no one can come in and mess with your stuff, you don't have to pay rent monthly. It's MINE, and I am God here haha. Peace of mind. I've been living with parents renting and then alone renting, and bad shit can happen when you have a landlord. Anyone who's rented and changed a few places knows what I'm talking about.
2) Take the money I have in the the bank and on Paypal and on me, and put it all in 1 place (the apartment itself). I feel that a safe "parking" for the money. Unless, like, I don't know, communists come to power and take peoples shit from them
3) Another good reason is to stop paying rent! I'll save about $2000 on rent a year. Taxes on the property, considering the size mine would be, is peanuts. This is a golden reason to do it.
4) I also have a bit of a chip on my shoulder. My parents rented, I rented whenever I lived alone. I never owned my own place.
5) After buying the apartment I could list it for sale online at a higher price. If it sells, I make bank. Shit, I could probably make a free blogger just for selling the apartment and rank it on the first page for people searching for an apartment in this city and get hits.
Any reasons why Not to do it? Any thoughts?
