1. you have to water the yard, and by hand when you have no sprinkler system (and no one tells you to look for that when looking at home)
2. old windows - seek the electricity right out of you
3. make sure you attic is insulated
4. mice, rats, rodents, etc... will come inside for warmth, shelter, food
5. pier and beems homes move, shift and make your walls crack, and cause your doors to not shut or just come wide open
6. your dogs will dig in everything
7. don't plant anything you don't want to water
8. you need to maintain your lawn and its not cheap (hello mowing, weed eating, weed & feed, fertilizer, etc...)
9. pest control is not cheap unless you want every big imaginable
10. TAXES
11. taking the trash out to the curb and then hauling it back in, rain, sleet or 112 degree heat
12. when things break, there is no landlord to call, its me!
13. my house has 9 different types of light bulbs
14. when the ac/heat goes out, and you are poor, cover up, immensely!
15. no one will feel bad for you because they own their own homes too and have "been there, done that
16. you can't just move out, or up and sell it
17. but, at the end of the day its all my own.
