At age 35ish, which is the bigger "red flag"?

[ShawnD1]

Where do you live? I live in a smallish city in the midwest and renting is WAY more expensive per month than buying (not counting closing costs). In my experience, the great majority of the U.S. is like this.

Canada is like that too. Buying is cheaper. It's also like that with cars, lease vs buy.

A lot of landlords don't actually "own" the property 100%. They have a mortgage on it just like everyone else. The rent must be more expensive than the mortgage + taxes + maintenance otherwise the landlord would be losing money.
Right now I live in a dude's basement. I'm probably paying 2/3 of his mortgage to rent 1/2 of the house and 1/2 the garage. I also pay 1/2 the utilities. Is renting a huge rip off? Absolutely, but it's my only option for the time being.

Buying is usually a better idea, but a lot of it depends on market timing. If the economy is booming and housing prices are up, then buying might be a bad idea because you'll be paying boom prices for the next 20 years. If the economy is in the shitter and you can get a big house for 100k, then buying is better.

 

[PingSpike]

Buying should be cheaper honestly. You lack flexibility to pursue job prospects as easily as a renter would, and you're captive to property taxes and increasingly to HOA fees. In exchange you get the ability to paint your walls different colors and have your tool shed permit denied by the town office.

 

[torpid]

Canada is like that too. Buying is cheaper. It's also like that with cars, lease vs buy.

A lot of landlords don't actually "own" the property 100%. They have a mortgage on it just like everyone else. The rent must be more expensive than the mortgage + taxes + maintenance otherwise the landlord would be losing money.

Most units within about 4 miles of downtown here are multi-unit dwellings (usually 3 if a house or 12+ if a complex). The landlords are still coming out way ahead because they are getting multiple rents. When I look to buy, I'm not looking to buy a multi-unit dwelling. I'm looking for a single unit dwelling. If I were looking at multi-unit dwellings the cost difference between those and my rent would obviously be astronomical.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

If you're 40+, read the article you linked. Women develop child bearing risks much earlier than men.

Plus by 35 a woman's fertility is about 50% of what it was during her 20's...

 

[KeithTalent]

A single man in that age groupe is either gay, a serial killer, lives in the basement with his parents, or all three. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Or is divorced and knows better now.

KT

 

[Krazy4Real]

the pole doesn't lie!

 

[SP33Demon]

Where do you live? I live in a smallish city in the midwest and renting is WAY more expensive per month than buying (not counting closing costs). In my experience, the great majority of the U.S. is like this.

This should put an end to the silly rent vs buy crap.
http://trulia.movity.com/rentvsbuy/

 

[alkemyst]

I think people are confusing single with "not dating".

 

[Bateluer]

I'm 28, will be 29 in January. I'm currently single and have never dated. From this perspective, the bigger red flag is for single women at similar ages to myself. Sometimes I think I've waited to long, because every woman I see thats single at my age falls under the heading of 'batshit crazy'.

 

[alkemyst]

I'm 28, will be 29 in January. I'm currently single and have never dated. From this perspective, the bigger red flag is for single women at similar ages to myself. Sometimes I think I've waited to long, because every woman I see thats single at my age falls under the heading of 'batshit crazy'.

how do you know if you never dated them?

 

[Bateluer]

how do you know if you never dated them?

Don't need to date someone to know they're nuts. Hanging around with them in various functions provides all the information you need.

 

[alkemyst]

Don't need to date someone to know they're nuts. Hanging around with them in various functions provides all the information you need.

Interesting all 20-something year old women that aren't tied down are nuts to you.

 

[yhelothar]

Like it or not the biological clock is in play. So women.

This. Unless the woman has no interest in ever starting a family, then it's level with men.