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Biggest plusses people argue in favor is not having to maintain the property yourself and being able to move much more easily. If you are one of the people who would prefer to buy, I highly recommend you do so. Maintaining your own stuff is quite nice, as it lets you keep it up to the quality you desire.

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rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Lmao this guy thinks landlords maintain the property.

Great, you can move more easily to another overpriced unmaintained property. You will own nothing and you will be happy about it.

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- langsamerduck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  My exact thoughts. Never had anything in my apartments maintained by the landlord, always had to maintain everything myself at my own expense. And despite maintaining it for them, they still keep our deposits when we try to leave.
  
  Keep our deposits, jack up rent despite doing nothing for us, and when they sell to a new landlord you have rich freaks coming into your home while you’re eating your lunch in your kitchen to stare at you and inspect the place to decide if they want to purchase you or not.
  
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  - BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Never had anything in my apartments maintained by the landlord, always had to maintain everything myself at my own expense.
    
    When is the last time you bought a furnace, a water heater, or a new roof for a property you rent? Ever?
    
    It isn’t that the owner isn’t maintaining it, it is that they aren’t maintaining it do the standard you would prefer. And that absolutely is an issue. And it is one of the primary benefits of no longer paying a landlord and instead buying a property and maintaining it to your own standards. You will almost certainly end up with a maintenance standard you like as you will be the one dictating and implementing it.
    
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    langsamerduck@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    A basic standard includes a ceiling that isn’t caving in, a foundation that isn’t sinking causing the windows to pull the wall above them apart, but either way the landlord won’t address it and I’d never have the money to correctly address it myself. In those instances it feels less like my personal standard isn’t being met but rather the basics and fundamentals aren’t being maintained.
    
    I would love to own though. If I were ever in a position to own and afford maintenance I would feel safer.
    
    I apologize by the way if I write in a confusing way, or have a hard time communicating my point, I have trouble with that. Owning is preferable in my opinion, property and privacy are power and a form of independence I long for.
    
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