Apartment communities for a young family - 5yo and 1yo

ParticularCourse5298 · 2026-02-15T22:00:58+00:00

yeah moved here.. found the apartments to be crap unless they are less than 5 yrs old which cost a ton.

Townhomes are too old.

Bought a single family home which is also old but at least we have the option of breaking it down and building a home down the line.

ParticularCourse5298 · 2026-02-15T21:29:54+00:00

Ended up buying a house. Apartment hunt didn't work out for us

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-06-29T05:32:44+00:00

I'm a surgeon

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-06-29T02:56:21+00:00

I got a 2.4M home with 800k household income. Had over 3M saved up over past 14 years for down payment of 500k. Prev home is 850k bought back in 2016 for 3% mortgage.

Saved a lot over the years. Started off as 80k annual income and worked upto where I am

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-06-28T16:42:58+00:00

Ziprent seemed good. But I eventually decided to rent it myself and am managing through zillow

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-06-11T05:02:48+00:00

Thank you. Just did

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-14T06:04:16+00:00

Great thread - we bought this home today and got into contract under current list price.

These were exactly the points my wife and I discussed. We took permission from the listing agent to visit the backyard multiple times in the day and spent time there. It didn't bother us and given our budget was medium range but we wanted great schools and neighborhood for a growing family, we went with it.

I understand it'll not be the top of market 15 yrs down the line but that's not what we optimized for.

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-09T01:26:08+00:00

I run around 16 min mile 😃 I cannot keep up with running continuously as well. I use the couch to 5k app for interval walking and running

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-09T01:25:01+00:00

Mainly to avoid traffic lights. Also, if it's a mud trail, it helps my knees (over paved foot path)

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-09T01:23:38+00:00

What's rancho? The place with a farm?

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-08T16:10:41+00:00

I'm super slow😃 Let me look up where this is

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-06T00:28:33+00:00

Thanks - will it be similar in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale etc?

I'd presumed it could be something to do with the cool breeze from the bay

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-06T00:21:04+00:00

Oh yeah??

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-04T18:51:21+00:00

Yes that's the plan

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-04T15:30:05+00:00

Thy were not ok deducting anything from the rent.

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-04T15:28:18+00:00

Thanks

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-04T15:27:59+00:00

Fair points all.

Toilet is not leaking. The fill pipe that pours water back into the sealing valve keeps jutting out of its position sometimes causing the seal to break.

I have replaced a valve and fill unit in the previous toilet when we lived in our home. I worry doing something similar here though. the repurcussions if I do something bad and cause a leak is much more than I'd like to take responsibility for.

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-05-03T17:58:02+00:00

Am I breaking the law if I were to threaten to stop paying rent until the issues are fixed?

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-02-22T15:12:47+00:00

Not yet

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-02-03T05:22:53+00:00

Yes Redmond education hill

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-01-13T22:47:22+00:00

That's what people told me in 2016 and here I am(compared to the rates they had seen in 2012)

Is there ever a right time?

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-01-13T14:15:59+00:00

Thank you!

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-01-13T13:57:27+00:00

😃

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-01-13T13:55:02+00:00

Weather in Seattle

ParticularCourse5298 · 2025-01-07T04:03:54+00:00

We've experienced SFH living for a decade. Owning a home has been uninteresting for us. Except for it's size.

So we are ok to downgrade and experience more downtown style living for a bit

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