SEMANTICS
I don’t like the majority of Chicago condos I come across. Some of them are nice, but they’re mostly just like other apartments. If I’m going to own a place, it needs something to set it apart from other places. For example, a house is a house. It has foundations and room and it’s what you think of when you think of a home. But a condo has two or three bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and whatever else. Sometimes, there’s a study or den, but you can find that in an apartment. No one stays in an apartment forever. At the most, it’s a few years and then you go find somewhere else to live. That’s the basic point of moving from apartment to apartment. A house means that you’re settling down. A condo isn’t the same. I know you might make a profit off a condo when you sell it in the end, but it’s not really your home. What makes it more special than an apartment in that same building? Sometimes, the rent of an apartment similar to a condo will be close to what you’d pay for a mortgage. So what’s the real difference? Is it just semantics?