Comments on: Is Renting The New American Dream?

CBS Evening News: Number Of Homeowners Declining Sharply While Renters Soar

[longtree-2009]

If some of you are doing well out there, play your cards to your chest. Should this bad economy continue with increasing numbers of "have nots", those who are "haves" will have to protect what they have especially if they are out of a city proper.

[rudy654-2009]

Isn''t this how the neocons want it? You bet ya!

[loudpipes3]

Rent? --- Hah!--- Go ahead morons!
Throw your money down the tubes. Do YOU think, that if something breaks, that the landlord will be there, - "Johnny on the spot" to fix it? ---Hah! More delusion!
--Youll be on a waiting list. ---When your heater goes down in the midst of winter, do you think the "fine landlord" will fix it so you can be warm?--- Yeah! - When he gets to it. ---Mean while: - freeze your *** off! ---Broken toilet? - Set a 5 gallon bucket on the porch & use it till he gets there!!!
----Best thing? - Buy yourself a 6000 dollar shack & fix it up. Get some balls & repair it. - DEAL with home owership!
Why do you people HAVE to live in such FANCY houses, rental, or otherwise anyway? ---MAKE DO! ---This is tough times! ---
---Why "Whine"? ---Todays people are NOT built of the stock that I came from!!!
---What I see, is "whiners and wanters" today!
You all sicken me, from your overpriced mortgages that you cant afford, to your kids that EACH, want a different kind of breakfast, and the ole lady runs & fetches, to please you! --- B. S.!
---Hot pockets?- Yuck!
----All this advice, from, ---Guess who?
-----------A Landlord!!!! - Hah!
---------------Morons!---------------------

[vietvet06]

I own my home and the land that it rests on. I don''t live in a city...the nearest store is twenty miles. My neighbors are beautiful. Good luck to the rest of you....

[stevenga777]

From what I read on this board it apears that now Americans are even too lazy to own their own homes. In 20 years all Americans will be working at Walmart for their Chinese slave masters. Americans are spoiled and lazy, living off the wealth saved by the depression and WWII generations. We need a large influx of motivated immigrants to get the US back on it''s feet. I''s rather have a Mexican who puts pride in his work build my houses than lazy a$$ American workers. It''s hard to find a good American worker...I''ll hire an immigrant over a native born American any day because the immigrant is motivated to build a better life while Americans just want to get by like with the least they can do like Homer Simpson, Al Bundy, Joe sixpack.

[simplemind2]

Indeed, American - have no fear!
After spending 3 Billions (i.e. 3,000,000,000,00) US tax-payers'' hard-earned money per week authorized by GWB - the "Sole Decider" - in Iraq,
NOW you all can MOVE there and rent a place to your heart''s delight!
GWB - MAN of hindsight 20/20.
Coming November vote for McCain - a.k.a. The Old-Man and his WINK WINK partner.
So that GWB''s Third Term legacy can continue forever!

[cariboubarbi]

RENTING...IT''S THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM!

THANKS BUSHIES!

IF MCAIN GETS ELECTED IT WILL BE:

LIVING IN A BOX IN AN ALLEY....IT''S THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM!

[incog-nito]

It''s amazing what 8 years can do to the American dream.

[Hybdiesel]

To me renting is for lazy people. Pay rent for thirty years and you have a stack of receipts. I have, had a few leaking pipes and put on a new roof and cut lot''s of grass. No payments for the last 22 years.I do not own a half million dollar home. Not worried about the housing market. This place keeps the rain off and we are warm in the winter. Best of all no one tells us what color to paint the house, or what kinds of plants to put out. We love freedom.

[barbaraf4]

I have rented and I have owned. I prefer ownership. I have a dog and a cat, I can have my own vegetable garden and I don''t have to worry about noisy neighbors or apartment complex parking. Of course there are chores and upkeep, but my house is only three and a half years old and I have a 10 year warranty. We took early retirement and at this point in our lives, this feels like a secure place to be. 20 years from now? Who knows.

[cmm103]

I hope the Landlords don''t take advantage of the market and make their places higher in rent than what it was before the latest news on the housing situation and the banks problems that they raise the rent just because the market in rental units is at a high demand right now.

[dabsgram]

You are so right. We have owned two homes during the course of our 35 year marriage. For the past few years, though, we have rented a very nice apartment, and I have no desire whatsoever to go back to the fix-what breaks and mow the lawn lifestyle. With the housing market the way it is, this may be the new way of the world for a long time.

[standlee5]

Renting is great, no leaking roofs to have to fix, no broken plumbing to deal with on a weekend, no electrical shorts or damage to repair, and it''s cheap. It''s like the perfect thing. I miss renting so much. Homeownership is a never ending pain in the azzz