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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 2:15:04 GMT
Did anyone see Noell's post on IG about downsizing? It was nicely written. A bit surprising, but maybe not as much as it would have been a few years ago. It seems like they've been moving in this direction for a while. They went small house, bigger house, now apartment. Interesting. I wish them all the best. They seem like a great family. http://instagram.com/p/BYl_jMGHytF |
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Post by Peamac on Sept 15, 2017 2:52:37 GMT
I hope she's doing well- that's quite a change in living space when you have kids and teens!
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Post by mom on Sept 15, 2017 3:23:15 GMT
While I admire her for downsizing if the is what she needed to do - I have to wonder if there is more to the story? A gentleman made a weird comment about 'explaining what happens when you don't pay your home taxes even if you own your home. The government does'. Just a weird comment for someone to make.
Anywho, I hope they are well.
Edited: ignore my post. It seems I misunderstood the posters intention. Apparently he was being hypothetical vs saying something specifically about them. My bad!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 4:01:16 GMT
While I admire her for downsizing if the is what she needed to do - I have to wonder if there is more to the story? A gentleman made a weird comment about 'explaining what happens when you don't pay your home taxes even if you own your home. The government does'. Just a weird comment for someone to make. Anywho, I hope they are well. I think the tax comment was a hypothetical vs. something about the Hymans. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 15, 2017 4:05:27 GMT
A gentleman made a weird comment about 'explaining what happens when you don't pay your home taxes even if you own your home. The government does'. Just a weird comment for someone to make. ^^^ what he's talking about here is how you don't *really* own your own home totally free-and-clear, if you still have to pay the government taxes on it even after you've paid off the mortgage. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 5:46:13 GMT
Congrats on Noell's move and lifestyle change. I hope it brings her a lot of peace and happiness. I had to laugh and this is not about Noell. She wrote home owning was noisy and apartment life is quieter. I moved out of my large apartment to a smaller home because it was quieter, lol. Funny how different areas of the country can be so opposite in home living experiences. I had several friends a few years ago all move to Arizona at the same time. It was a big planned move. DH & I were invited but it was not a good time for us emotionally. My friends sold homes and they love apartment life in Arizona. They are always telling me it is so quiet. I posted this a couple of weeks ago but I love small home living. Always have and always will. I could never live in a big home. It would make me a nervous wreck. Nothing against big homes. I love looking at them & visiting them but not living in one. I never lived in an apartment where I had maintenance taken care of for me. DH & I always did it and our landlord's gave us a discount on our rent or took the maintenance fee and repairs off our rent. I know when we bought our house everyone was like you will have to do the maintenance. We were already doing maintenance, lol. Now, we actually get to own the things we fixed. So far we have noticed it has been cheaper for us even though we are not getting a discount off our mortgage.  I know our situation is unique. Apartments are best for maintenance care. We are thinking of a lawn service though. I can't physically mow our yard and my DH is allergic to grass. Bless him he has to mow. I seriously doubt Noell had tax problems. That is a very nice luxury apartment she is living in. |
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Post by mom on Sept 15, 2017 10:41:16 GMT
While I admire her for downsizing if the is what she needed to do - I have to wonder if there is more to the story? A gentleman made a weird comment about 'explaining what happens when you don't pay your home taxes even if you own your home. The government does'. Just a weird comment for someone to make. Anywho, I hope they are well. I think the tax comment was a hypothetical vs. something about the Hymans. Oh I hope so! |
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Post by mom on Sept 15, 2017 10:42:15 GMT
A gentleman made a weird comment about 'explaining what happens when you don't pay your home taxes even if you own your home. The government does'. Just a weird comment for someone to make. ^^^ what he's talking about here is how you don't *really* own your own home totally free-and-clear, if you still have to pay the government taxes on it even after you've paid off the mortgage. Ok - good! I couldn't figure out why anyone would put that info out there about them! |
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Post by pennyscraps on Sept 15, 2017 13:49:34 GMT
We downsized in 2015 and I am SO HAPPY we did. I wish them all the best.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 15, 2017 14:14:24 GMT
That's the luxury version of apartment life though.  They went from McMansion to McApartment. The smaller living space is more than compensated by all the top notch amenities she mentions. Most of us around the world live a very different kind of apartment life. The extra service offered in my building is the cleaning of the stairs once a month. That's it. Small living isn't just beneficial for those getting a pool and a large patch of grass that gets mowed regularly and a big patio and whatnot. Small living can also be a very positive experience when you don't have all that and your building is straight on the street, has no elevator/lift, no gym space, etc. In the end, it's about finding a healthy balance between the money you have (and not the money you have access to through one or another form of credit) and what is affordable within that money range. The biggest trick in the book is in one's mind: accepting that these lives people show off and present (if not sell) as perfect is not the utopian ideal to try to achieve in life. That's it. There's nothing more to it. I understand Noell wants to highlight the aspects she wanted from her McMansion life and got through apartment life in the end. But for a lot of people, these expectations are not realistic either. The "simple" life Noell describes is still way more than the majority of apartment-dwellers have and will ever have. I had a wonderful exchange about this on here with @amayalylac and I do find it important to underlign that the simplified lives many are bound to lead in the future due to economical and ecological factors will be of a different kind. Yet these far less luxurious simple lives are just as commendable and worthy of praise. #realitycheck |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 15, 2017 16:23:35 GMT
true... Some of it is what you want to get out of where you live.
She does have a point about *some* Arizona neighborhoods, though- there are some where you pull into your driveway, park your car in the garage, go into the house, and never see anyone outside again.
Our old neighborhood was like that; we didn't even know our next door neighbors' names. It's partly due to the climate-- it's freakin' HOT in the summer- no one in their right mind is outside at 6 pm when it's 117 degrees F to hang out with the neighbors-- and partly due to how some neighborhoods are designed. Most houses in newer developments are built with 6 foot cement block walls around the backyards, and that development was INSANELY huge- HUNDREDS of houses, and people would come and go.
Our new neighborhood, though, was built in the mid-1980s. It's a circle of about 25 houses, the yards only have 5 foot walls (so you can actually chat with your neighbors over the wall if you want to), and most people have lived there a long time-- people actually leave their garages open, sit outside, walk around, and get to know you! Heck, this neighborhood even has a neighborhood garage sale and decorates the entire area at Christmas! In the first couple weeks we've lived here, we found our new neighborhood to be TONS friendlier than our old neighborhood EVER was even after 7 years of living there.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 15, 2017 17:22:51 GMT
I despise living in apartments! Or even condos. The shared walls can = a lot of noise. And you have to be extra careful about MAKING noise, too.
I do like their thought process about downsizing, though. But I don't regret buying one bit. I guess it depends on what you value. I value privacy and quiet. We need places to work on things, like our cars or just DIY projects. That is near impossible in an apartment. I did it for most of my 20s, and I'm happy I'm out.
I also see real estate as an investment. It's much better to own and put money into that, if you can. Make the right decisions, and it'll pay off big time. But again, it's not everyone's priority.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 7:12:03 GMT
sleepingbooty That is very luxurious your stairs are cleaned once a month. I was the one who cleaned the stairs, lol. I loved the places I lived, for the most part. I had one horrible apartment that is best left in history. The places I rented I enjoyed making it into a home and taking care of the buildings- helping with cleaning, gardening and being part of the community. I have more of the Tree Grows in Brooklyn apartment view of life than luxury living. I agree about living on credit. Never! I have a friend who is living in a luxurious apartment. She is broke!!!! Broker than anything imaginable. She went from a nice comfy small home to living a life she can't afford. It is really stressing her out. She has started drinking more, spending more, entertaining more in unhealthy ways she can't afford. I hate seeing this happen to her. As a friend I feel helpless. I hate to say it she is going to have to fall before she can get back up. I don't think this about Noell. I don't want anyone to think that. I can see that Noell made a decision that is right for her. I think that is great. I have been practicing simplicity since the early 90's. I know simplicity and minimalism is something that is really popular right now for a variety of reasons. I have no clue, lol. This has always been my life so I really truly do not know why it is popular. The one thing I can't reiterate enough- No matter how much you simplify and declutter the creep always comes back. Decluttering is a constant thing that has to be done. sleepingbooty probably knows what I am talking about.  Like for example decluttering guru's tell you to get rid of your storage units that so many American's have. I couldn't do that when I lived in an apartment. I had a storage unit for my seasonal items, gardening & my DH's specialty tools. We had nothing else in there except those things. I tacked the expense as part of my rent since it really was. I needed a small unit to keep my life decluttered and simplified. It really worked. pancakes I agree about apartments. Luckily, for the most part I lived in old apartments with lovely construction. I only had one cheap apartment that was so noisy I thought I was going to go mad. I value my privacy too. I am very quiet person in real life. I am the girl who is always creating or reading. DH & I wanted a home since we are big DIY. It made sense for us. When we bought our home we took measurements of the place we were living in and used that to find our home. I went to a smaller home than my last apartment but it is the same size. I just gained a garage for my DH.
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I know our situation is unique. Apartments are best for maintenance care. We are thinking of a lawn service though. I can't physically mow our yard and my DH is allergic to grass. Bless him he has to mow. 
They went from McMansion to McApartment. The smaller living space is more than compensated by all the top notch amenities she mentions. 
Like for example decluttering guru's tell you to get rid of your storage units that so many American's have. I couldn't do that when I lived in an apartment. I had a storage unit for my seasonal items, gardening & my DH's specialty tools. We had nothing else in there except those things. I tacked the expense as part of my rent since it really was. I needed a small unit to keep my life decluttered and simplified. It really worked.