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The topic of housing is so fucking depressing. My rent has gone up 50% in the last 3 years.

EDIT: I was saving up for a house, but house prices literally doubled during the pandemic in my area. A starter home was ~$200K, now it’s hard to get in the door at $400K all in 2 years. I went from being able to put 20% down to not being able to clear PMI. I make decent money and the most I’d be able to get for a loan is about $200K so I just need to find $160K to be able to buy a bottom of the barrel house that cost $180K in 2019. What the fuck are you supposed to do about that?

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The last place I lived was sold to a new owner who increased the rent by $500 to bring it up to “market value”. Tried warning new tenants that they were ghouls, the management company hired someone to put new product on the floor that still wasn’t dry when they moved in and their furniture stuck to the floor.

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:mao-wtf:

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I feel you. I did something similar. I co-rented a whole ass house a few years ago before I moved into an apartment. The latter was cheaper, but now, I’m paying as much for my apartment as I was for the house.

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