When you rent, you are normally limited on what you can do to improve your home. You must obtain permission to do certain types of improvements. Nor is it wise to spend thousands of dollars painting, putting in carpet, wall tile or window coverings when the main person who benefits is the landlord and not you.
Since your landlord wants to keep his expenses to a minimum, he or she probably will not be much to improve the place, either.
When you own a house, however, you can do almost anything you want. You get the benefits of improvements to make, rather than come to live in an environment that has created, not a faceless owner.
Inside and out, you’ll likely need more space if you own your own home. Even moving to a condominium from an apartment, you may find that you have much more space to your own machine and storage space and larger rooms. Apartment complexes are more interested in creating the maximum number of revenue generating units that are in creating space for each tenant.
If you move to a house for the first time, be very pleased with all the new space you have. You may have to buy more “stuff”.