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Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

Exactly. And if you can afford a large expensive house, you can better afford a medium sized less expensive house that you can afford lawn care and maintenance for. Money and laziness are no excuse.

No worries, I am not doing law care in a small house either. It’s a waste of brain cells. No one is getting out of a historical low mortgage rate to please their average wit neighbors who have no hobbies other than criticizing some grass 😬

So a fancy way of admitting your laziness.

I can't speak for the PP, but the idea that you're lazy if you don't keep your lawn immaculate is dumb. You don't know what's going on in their life. If they've got some kids, a dying parent, a full time job, and sit on the board of several organizations, that's not lazy. Something's got to give, and lawn maintenance is easily the least important of these. Stay mad.

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Anonymous wrote:So to summarize: cheap, poor, lazy, or some combo thereof?

They have other priorities than trump your desires.

Those “priorities” make them one of the above.

But they don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

Exactly. And if you can afford a large expensive house, you can better afford a medium sized less expensive house that you can afford lawn care and maintenance for. Money and laziness are no excuse.

No worries, I am not doing law care in a small house either. It’s a waste of brain cells. No one is getting out of a historical low mortgage rate to please their average wit neighbors who have no hobbies other than criticizing some grass 😬

So a fancy way of admitting your laziness.

Honestly it's a laziness issue. They don't want to fix it and don't bother getting someone else to fix it either.

The wild thing is that these people always buy the nicest and most pristine homes. Let them fall into disrepair and then sell 5 years later. It boggles my mind. They never buy the junky houses and keep them junky, so clearly they like nice things, they just can't care for them.

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Anonymous wrote:They could have run out of money.
They could be from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance.

They could be me and doing this to not look "rich." Haven't had a single thing stolen since we decided to let the outside of the house go down a little.

What culture doesn’t do home maintenance? Very curious

Poorer countries. Places where people will put money on making the inside nice but leaving the outside ugly (they think it wards off burglars).

I think it’s being house poor and no time.

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Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

My house wasn’t far from office when I bought it. But I got laid off and had to find a job that’s far but other wise a great job with a lot of $$$$. I am not going to sacrifice my career to upkeep a garden.

This.

What happened to us is a job loss 10 years ago we were never able to make up. So we cut out lawn care.

Then came the health issues, so we were no longer able to do the maintenance ourselves.

Anonymous wrote:They could have run out of money.
They could be from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance.

They could be me and doing this to not look "rich." Haven't had a single thing stolen since we decided to let the outside of the house go down a little.

What culture doesn’t do home maintenance? Very curious

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could have run out of money.
They could be from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance.

They could be me and doing this to not look "rich." Haven't had a single thing stolen since we decided to let the outside of the house go down a little.

"When in Rome..."
If you are "from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance" and move to a culture that does, you need to start doing it to.

Agree. I come from a culture like that. When we moved here to the US we realized how important a nice yard is to Americans, so we put in the time, money and effort to keep the yard nice.

Anonymous wrote:They could have run out of money.
They could be from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance.

They could be me and doing this to not look "rich." Haven't had a single thing stolen since we decided to let the outside of the house go down a little.

"When in Rome..."
If you are "from a culture that doesn't do home maintenance" and move to a culture that does, you need to start doing it to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

Exactly. And if you can afford a large expensive house, you can better afford a medium sized less expensive house that you can afford lawn care and maintenance for. Money and laziness are no excuse.

No worries, I am not doing law care in a small house either. It’s a waste of brain cells. No one is getting out of a historical low mortgage rate to please their average wit neighbors who have no hobbies other than criticizing some grass 😬

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

My house wasn’t far from office when I bought it. But I got laid off and had to find a job that’s far but other wise a great job with a lot of $$$$. I am not going to sacrifice my career to upkeep a garden.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to summarize: cheap, poor, lazy, or some combo thereof?

They have other priorities than trump your desires.

Those “priorities” make them one of the above.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.

Exactly. And if you can afford a large expensive house, you can better afford a medium sized less expensive house that you can afford lawn care and maintenance for. Money and laziness are no excuse.

Anonymous wrote:No time! I commute and work long hours to afford this house. I barely have energy to sleep let along caring for a house.

This is the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it be better to sell the large house that is holding you prisoner and buy something smaller closer to your office? You are in a race to nowhere.