It's a way for people to shadily keep "unwanted elements" out of their neighborhood, while also jacking up property values and rent for the people living there.

I have a friend who lives in a HOA complex, and he pays over 150 bucks a MONTH in HOA fees.

Christ, why didn't he just nope out of the place?

Because finding a new place to live in the city is literal hell

Thank fuck my GF's parents put a down payment down on a house for us, otherwise we'd be apartment plebs still

>own a house
>with a gf
I'm curious how that worked without a marriage.

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Marriage is an outdated concept, my dude

marriage scares the fuck outta me man

My mother's brother just had his wife walk out on him

didn't argue, had a flight booked months in advance

Not sure if she just left him with 3 kids to raise or she really wants a divorce

Your uncle.

Yeah

Had a job, Not an alcoholic, not a wife beater, let her be a homemaker

No issue with the kids, etc

That was kind of weirdly phrased, and just hope she disappears. Sucks for the kids but if she fights it then he's going to lose.

Oh if she fights, he loses

No matter what circumstance, it's the law at this point

Plus she didn't hold a job, so that's easy money

Even if she doesn't want the kids she can extort him for money.

Uncle gets along with his two sisters, not a misogynist, nor a push-over because he works in the trades

oh well

What's the wife's family like? Cunt like that doesn't fall far from the tree.

Uneducated, in the boonies

Might be a blessing, if they were educated your uncle would be bled dry by now.

See, this is why I'm so reluctant to do the whole marriage thing: I want to be in this relationship because I want to be here, not because I'll get my life ruined legally if I decide it isn't working

Kind if threw that out the window when her parents bought you a house...

There's a formal way of ending things

My sister is cohabiting with her boyfriend

similar situation but instead of my parents footing the downpayerment, she did it herself

because her bf is a broke motherfucker

Oh, it's in her name. I "Rent" it from her at 0 percent markup and get a renter's credit on my taxes at the end of the year.

Don't bother me none.

Should be fine

Are you on the coasts or in the midwest/south etc?

I mean, you like her well enough to live with her.

I think I could afford a down payment in the middle of the US, definitely not where I live now

At the absolute worst, if she breaks up with me (and after 10 years of being in this relationship, I doubt it), I get 90 days to vacate by Minnesota law 👌 😂

Her parents put down 30k on our house

That's a big house out there