“Renters”

I just read this article where they are talking about the myth that owning your own home is better than renting.  This is something that I wish my husband would of read two years ago before we bought our house!  We were renters.  But you know what, those who owned houses around us treated us like scum, because we were “renters”

Sure there are many renters out there who just go from place to place and have this lousy attitude that well I don’t own it so why should I take care of it?  See they gave the rest of us a bad rep just because we were “renters”

Since buying our house two years ago we have had a gas leak, both showers leaking, roof leaking into the furnace when it would rain (seriously I had water coming out of my furance), hot water tank problems to last weekends wonder start of the kitchen faucet went and could not shut off the water, to the back bathroom faucet leaking which lead the the plumbers breaking my back bathroom sink.  Not to mention the new roof we just put on the house.

Sometimes I wish we could of just looked to find another place to rent.  Finding a good and honest landlord is just as hard as it is for landlords to find good and honest renters.  With our housing market the way that it is, it makes me wonder what will happen now.  I would love to put the house up for sale and move out into the country, but I can tell you, now is definitely not the time to sell a house!!