11-05-2018, 01:19 PM
(11-05-2018, 12:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: To be totally fair, this took me a long time too...I lived in a house for 5 years due in large part to the high price of the City Centre Condos, but even when I started looking, I though the condo fees were really high. I spent a long time with a spreadsheet to convince myself that they weren't...I literally took all the repairs I did over 5 years and distributed them over the 5 year period, and was surprised how much I'd spent.
I did exactly the same thing. Yes, the condo fees are somewhat less than we were spending. And we were also spending time ourselves maintaining the house and property.