| There is no vantage point like the apartment | | | | love and care for, and where they can feel |
| next door for keeping track of the neighbors. | | | | that these things belong to them. A public |
| | | | park helps, but it is not nearly as good as a |
| When they come and go; who comes and goes | | | | place of their own. |
| with them, and at what awful hours, and what | | | | |
| disgraceful things they do. | | | | If you think an apartment is not the best |
| | | | place for you to live, perhaps you can find a |
| Of course, it is well to remember that when | | | | house to rent. This also has its advantages |
| you look in a goldfish bowl, the fish also | | | | and disadvantages. You are not tied quite so |
| look at you. | | | | securely to one place. |
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| All kidding aside, for families where both | | | | If you are not too sure how long you will be |
| the husband and wife have steady, full-time | | | | in a place, or are subject to sudden |
| jobs in business or industry, where they both | | | | transfers by the policy or caprice of your |
| work so hard that they don't have time or | | | | company, or if you are the type that takes |
| energy enough left to keep up a house, they | | | | sudden notions to quit and try your luck |
| are surely better off in an apartment, as it | | | | somewhere else, then you should rent, and not |
| does save work and responsibility. | | | | try to buy or build a house. |
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| If a house is just a place to sleep, a place | | | | Renting also has the advantage of relieving |
| in which to eat a hurried breakfast, and a | | | | you of some of the responsibilities that go |
| starting point from which to rush off to | | | | with owning a home. When the roof leaks, just |
| work, a place to return to after a late show, | | | | call up the landlord and ask him to take care |
| to tumble into bed, and to get a little sleep | | | | of it. If you need paint or repairs, let him |
| before another hurried breakfast, then off to | | | | look after it, and pay the bill. |
| the rat race again for another day, and a | | | | |
| repetition of the same routine, then do not | | | | When the tax collector comes around, it is |
| buy or build a house. | | | | not your problem. You do not need to worry |
| | | | about depreciation. If your family outgrows a |
| By all means rent an apartment; it will save | | | | house, you can move into a larger one without |
| you work and worry and will fit your needs | | | | too much trouble and expense. |
| much better. | | | | |
| | | | It is well to remember that money paid out in |
| One way to get luxury living without having | | | | rent is gone completely. If you had bought |
| to own and service all the features yourself | | | | the house ten years ago, and had made |
| is to buy an apartment in a group where the | | | | rent-like payments for ten years, you would |
| apartments are individually owned, but the | | | | have accumulated a considerable equity in the |
| swimming pool, tenni3 courts, barbecue, and | | | | house, and you would also have benefited from |
| other recreational facilities are owned | | | | the large increase in property values during |
| cooperatively by the group of people living | | | | that same period. Buying a house gives you |
| in the apartments. | | | | something to sell when the time comes to |
| | | | move. |
| An individual family might find it too | | | | |
| expensive to maintain a swimming pool, for | | | | There is not much point in having a house and |
| one or two uses a week, but it wouldn't cost | | | | land, if you do not find pleasure and |
| too much, in either money or effort for a | | | | enjoyment in taking care of it. |
| group of fifty people to keep up a pool. | | | | |
| | | | If the yard is so large as to be a burden to |
| Renting a House | | | | either the husband or the wife, then they |
| | | | would be better off without quite so much. As |
| But an apartment house is obviously not the | | | | long as maintaining a house and garden can be |
| place for a family with children. It is a | | | | fun, all is well, but what future is there in |
| poor emotional climate for them, when they | | | | having to work yourself to death in order to |
| must always be quiet so as not to disturb the | | | | live in fine surroundings which you do not |
| neighbors, and when they have little | | | | have time to appreciate? |
| opportunity to get outdoors and run and | | | | |
| exercise, and shout as they ought to be able | | | | Enough is enough. There are two extremes to |
| to do. | | | | avoid a spacious house and wide-spreading |
| | | | lawns, or a tiny house and no lawn or garden. |
| If they must always be afraid of getting in | | | | Let's not overdo it either way. |
| someone's hair, how can they grow up normally | | | | |
| and naturally? Life can be so much more | | | | If you would rather buy than rent make sure |
| interesting for them if they can be in a | | | | you use a mortgage calculator to get the best |
| place where there are trees to climb, pets to | | | | mortgage available. |