Comments by "E Dennis" (@edennis8578) on "Ben Felix" channel.

@warriorxtman2 If you rent, then you don't have to mow the grass, shovel the snow, buy the new furnace, buy the new water heater, buy the new refrigerator and stove, have the driveway redone, reroof, etc. We've done this stuff in the 20 years we've lived in our house. We need new windows, too. I don't think we'll be doing this in 10 years when we're retired. Renting has a lot going for it if the cost to rent is a good deal compared to the cost of buying. When we bought, rents in our town were through the roof; then developers built too many apartment buildings and couldn't fill them, so rents plummeted. I wish I had known that was going to happen. One other result was that our small house didn't appreciate in value much at all. Totally not worth it.
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@chodkowski01 I bought where I live. Moving wasn't practical, and there was no way to predict what was going to happen in 5 years after the purchase. On the plus side, the neighborhood has improved rather than degenerating, which is usual in an older neighborhood.
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@maythesciencebewithyou Do you know what happens if you don't mow the grass at a house you own? The city mows it and charges you an arm and a leg. If you hire it done, that's an extra $120/month minimum. And in my town, no renter shovels their own snow; the owner does that. Either you have no effing idea what you're talking about, you live where grass doesn't grow and it doesn't snow, or the rental agreements are a lot different and there aren't any city regulations requiring that you mow the lawn. Your remarks are so ignorant, in fact, that I would bet that you're still in middle school.
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@romariosmith422 Omg, maintenance costs are not hypothetical, especially if you live there for 10 years or more. And come on, most people couldn't put in furnace on their own; who are you trying to kid? Yourself? Also, very few people make $100,000/year. That's what the deans at my university make, and I can count them on one hand. Even most of the professors only make between 40k and 65k per year, and they're the best-paid group of people in town. You are full of bs.
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