r/AffordableHousing

I’ve lived in my house the whole life. My parents bought it long time ago when I was 2-3 years old, I don’t even know, and after they passed, it ended up being mine. For a long time I kept telling myself I’d renovate it little by little and turn it into something decent, but honestly… I just couldn’t do it. Every room in this place has some memory attached to it, and changing things started to feel weirdly heavy emotionally. Like I’d be ripping pieces of my childhood out of the walls or something.

But the house started to look dated like 10 years ago. Feels like this place is frozen in another era. Tiny rooms, old carpets, ancient kitchen cabinets, wood paneling everywhere… Just imagine the oldest and crampiest house ever, and that’s mine

I’ve been saving up and I hope to move somewhere bigger, newer, and closer to the city because I’m kind of tired of living far away from the city

I listed the house a while back thinking maybe someone would see potential in it, but barely anyone’s even interested

A couple people came by to see the place and you could see them mentally checking out the second they walked through the front door. Can’t even blame them… I think this place is more of a teardown than an actual home

Lately I’ve been looking at companies that buy houses for cash, and I saw KindHouseBuyers mentioned a few times. Feels like that might realistically be my only way out at this point, even if I probably won’t get top dollar for it.

Anyone else ever feel emotionally attached to a house while also desperately wanting to get away from it at the same time?

I have been renting an apartment unit through the workforce housing program offered in my city (St. Petersburg, FL). This program offers reduced base rent prices based on income brackets, ppl in household, unit, etc.

My lease is up in August and I recently learned that during the cities annual review of the program, the base rent for my specific unit and situation has been lowered. I still fall within the income bracket to qualify and you have to get reapproved during lease renewal.

My apartment complex claims that renewing leasers are not subject to the lower rates and must pay the original approved rent even though they are re-evaluating your income when you renew. I’m not familiar with how city policies and laws work with this but is this right?

My rent has been $2035 for my lease and the new rent determined BY the city for the affordable housing program is now $1899. If approved to renew I feel like I should be entitled to the reduced rent that the city has reviewed and determined to be desired number. My understanding is the landlord can’t alter these rates for the program

Would love some insight and advice on how to proceed