Comments on: More Landlord Disappointment

By: BT

BT — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:53:32 +0000

Buy a duplex. You will be able to start building equity and if you decide to move, you can rent out the side in which you were living.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 01:19:54 +0000

Well, I’m not buying a house until I know where I’m going to settle down for more than just the next twelve months. So I’m trading the possibility of “quickly” increasing net worth for (a) flexibility and (b) not going into $100,000 or more debt.

By: cryptojoe

cryptojoe — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:07:29 +0000

Single best way to increase net worth – buy a house. I increased about 40,000 in the last 18 months. If thats all it increases, that would be fine with me, but I expect there will be small valuation increases each year for quite a while.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:47:20 +0000

It turns out they do take personal checks. I’d still rather get my credit card discount. On the other hand, see the next post.

By: Darren R. Sussman

Darren R. Sussman — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:47:57 +0000

Wait…if they don’t take personal checks, how are you expected to pay? Do they expect all of their tennents to get money orders every month? That seems ridiculous. If they’re not going to take checks, it seems like they should have to take credit cards…

By: erin

erin — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:56:05 +0000

I’m guessing they are discontinueing the credit card payments because of the 3-5% hit they take in cc company fees.