Shared Services

One of the benefits of renting that is often downplayed is cost advantages of living in a single building with other people. It simply takes less infrastructure on a per-capita bases to support multiple people in a building. Multi-family homes are more energy efficient, cheaper to maintain on a per capita basis.

Rather then having three or four sets of lawn mowers, you have one guy do all the mowing for you. Rather then having many repairmen servicing different houses, you have same guy fix things on all the buildings he owns. Not to mention the savings living in the city, having buses and ability to walk or ride to various locations nearby and not having to motor everywhere.

I get tired of all the bullshit about how you’re stealing from your future every month you rent. You must be poor, a sad individual who chooses to rent more then on a very brief temporary basis. But have you looked at the energy costs alone for a single-family house? Or the cost of car commuting to a remote location? The cost of hiring your own mechanics and construction companies to constantly be fixing and improving the structure you live in?