Agreed. The most relevant terminal value for me is not having to put up with other peoples’ rules and restrictions. The current situation is non-optimal in that sense in several ways—there’s the obvious stuff like not being able to paint or make changes to the space, but there’s also things like occasionally having to un-make plans on very short notice in order to accommodate the landlord’s decision to do pest control on a certain day, or having to jump through hoops to make sure that a friend can spend the night without getting their car towed.
Some of that would be mitigated by renting a house instead of an apartment, but the problem doesn’t seem to go away until I don’t have a landlord at all.
Renting just means different kinds of risk and headache. The big benefits of home ownership include:
you can modify the home to suit your preferences. Lighting, paintwork, carpeting, wired home networking, beer fountain, w/e.
you can purchase nice furnishings and, say, a grand piano and not worry about having to relocate at the whim of the landlord.
Whether one or the other is better depends on the individual.
Agreed. The most relevant terminal value for me is not having to put up with other peoples’ rules and restrictions. The current situation is non-optimal in that sense in several ways—there’s the obvious stuff like not being able to paint or make changes to the space, but there’s also things like occasionally having to un-make plans on very short notice in order to accommodate the landlord’s decision to do pest control on a certain day, or having to jump through hoops to make sure that a friend can spend the night without getting their car towed.
Some of that would be mitigated by renting a house instead of an apartment, but the problem doesn’t seem to go away until I don’t have a landlord at all.