What is the Point of Owning a Home With a Paid Off Mortgage?
What is the Point of Owning a Home With a Paid Off Mortgage?

What is the Point of Owning a Home With a Paid Off Mortgage?

Trying to impress people is exhausting. It is the worst part of living in L.A., worse than the smog and the terrifying traffic and the astronomical prices. Everyone spends a fortune on cosmetic surgery and makeup and then lines up for cattle call auditions, hoping that one of the people evaluating them will be someone they once met at a networking brunch about which they still entertain fantasies that they stood out from the crowd. It is not only the Tinseltown airheads who have to live with this level of impressing people; the lawyers, the office receptionists, and the restaurant servers have to do it, too. If only you were rich and you could silence people with your money instead of stunning them with your smile.

Everyone knows that lack of affordable housing is a problem, especially in Southern California, but so many of the proposed solutions to it run into insurmountable levels of red tape. Why not just turn that vacant mall into an apartment building? No can do; this is not a residential neighborhood? Why not build duplexes on that golf course? No dice; the rich people would rather have a place to play golf than a place for everyone else to live. What about if the houses are tiny? If they are here, they are still taking up too much room.