Listen to Your Body

During life, we may have several houses.

Some people have one to live in; others many.

Some invest in real estate and never live in the property they own.

Some largely live off their rental income.

I’ve been both a landlord and a renter.

I’ve been disadvantaged both ways.

I conclude some people shouldn’t own houses.

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Now I’m a homeowner I realize how nice it was to be a renter.

Then, when something went wrong, I contacted the landlord.

Now there’s nobody else to call.

It’s all on me.

We may have many several cars.

Rarely one.

Some own many during their lifetimes.

My ex-landlord had an interesting philosophy.

Between him and his wife, at one time they had 3 cars.

Not that unusual.

What was unusual is that the combined mileage on the 3 cars exceeded 1 million miles.

He would wait to buy a used vehicle until it had a couple hundred thousand miles on it, then put a couple hundred thousand miles of his own on it.