Condo's=hearing the TV in the room next door or the other people going at it in bed...the building has to look the same, no personalization...you can't even display a flag if you wanted to in most places...lack of real room to do anything that you would like to do...
your own house=...even if you get a fixer-upper....knowing that you built it the way you want it...do what you want to do to it, make as much noise as you want, and you can't hear the next door neighbors orgies....Priceless.
Well...not priceless...
Cement mixer= $299
Riding Beer Holder/mower= $1200
Nail gun's= borrowed
Nail's=$100
And the materials to fix it up....$2000+
and then what ever else you put into it....equity goes up...
Plus with a lot of locals around...everyone will help on hard projects...if you throw a huge BBQ
option's are limited on Condo's...
Option's are UN-Limited on houses.....
Look at my back yard....I could build a huge 20 car garage back there or another house if I wanted to.....
and building a building from scratch is way easier than what I did to the garage...which was building it from the inside out...and it took too long to do...but I'm happy with the end result