TheOlympian

joined 1 year ago
[–] TheOlympian@kbin.social 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In 2017 my landlord raised my rent from $1k to $1100 a month for the place I rented with my daughter because I finally broke down and got her a dog. I was annoyed because this wasn't in the lease but I was month to month by this time and figured I could probably get a house around me for the same cost and at least I'd be building equity. I closed in 2018 on a $120k fixer upper on 12 acres. I got a $30k rehab loan and my mortgage/insurance/property tax payment ended up being just over $1100. I spent 7 months in major renovations.

Fast forward to today, I have a 2.875% mortgage rate with just over $1000 a month all in payment (early COVID refi saved me about $100/month), my house was just appraised for $415k, and I was able to sell 5 acres of the land for a total of about $160k.

A free shelter dog ended up turning $150k into $575k. 10/10 would recommend.

[–] TheOlympian@kbin.social 105 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Alternate take: Buy an Android phone and use your green bubble to weed trash people out of your life.

[–] TheOlympian@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Much appreciated!

[–] TheOlympian@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Looks like the code is dead.

"Error: Referring user has invited too many other users recently. Please try again later"

If anyone has one to spare, I'd appreciate it.