Anyone have regrets about having gone full-time?

CKNSLS wrote:

MookieKat wrote:
Looks like this thread is going off on a tangent...about leaving an inheritance. Perhaps this should be moved to a new thread.

Maybe it is or isn't. My point being that if you go fulltiming it's because you want to and it's all about "us". You can't justify it on a financial level with lack of house maintenance, utilities, and so on. Not with real estate appreciation being historically a sound investment.

Then there is a matter of financial legacy....that owning real estate is a very effective way of doing this.

Of course, if you raised your kids, love your children/grandchildren but don't wish to leave them anything (or just a little) then I would say there is nothing wrong with fulltiming.

Let's all just realize exactly what were talking about.

Why do you care why other people justify their desire, want, or need to go full-time? Are you trying to push people into real estate as an investment instrument? Have you considered that not everyone in today's market wants to buy a house. I for one have a house and it has NOT appreciated in value over the last 2-3 years. I move ever few years because of my job therefore it is not a wise financial instrument for me to build wealth despite your pushing it down everyone's throat!

And your condescending attitude that you tacitly give people permission to full-time even though they may not leave an inheritance to their children or grandchildren is mind-boggling! Who are you to tell other people how to live their lives. Are YOU financially responsible for their future? Are YOU the one who had his (or her) inheritance "stolen" from them by parents or grandparents who decided that they wanted to live out their golden years traveling in an RV?

I hope my parents leave this world with a huge smile on their faces and with just enough in the bank that we can settle their final financial obligations and give them a great wake!

You have turned this thread into your effort to tell people that they are being financially irresponsible if they don't want to own real estate. Which was not what the OP originally asked. They asked if they had regrets about going full time. Not if they were financially happy because they are not buying real estate.

Let people make their own choices. I have seen enough from you stating that people are making poor decisions because YOU feel they don't want to own real estate...give it a break!