Originally Posted by Remsen
I've regretted buying every house I've owned other than the land with the cabin I currently have. First place was in the early 1990s in Oakland, paid $110k while making $30k a year. I've made a few bucks on each place I've bought (and they all seem to have cost 3-4x my annual income), but the headaches of maintenance, repairs, never-ending costs and bad neighbors outweighed any profit. The bit of land with a single room log cabin has given me more satisfaction than all of the houses combined, and out of pocket was less than $100k all in.


Hard to put a price on serenity and satisfaction.


The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.

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