Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

When I'm older, I want to live directly in the center of Leipzig (of course preferably a penthouse, but probably unaffordable for me) between the Gewandhaus (culture), Barfußgäßchen (inspiration, people "watching") and the Tschibo standing café (social contacts). :)

No, you should live away from the city – because the children desperately need these apartments to study! Oh, and you also have to move out of the single-family house with 200 sqm. Hmm, maybe then even leave Germany, to the retiree island? Maybe that would then be considered morally right?

Joking aside – live and let live. Our parents both live in a 200+ sqm house each with two people, so where’s the problem? Am I not allowed to fulfill my own dream of owning a house because of that? If they moved out, they could sell their houses for 500k plus. But where would they go then? Should we deport them because they are old (50 plus), should they move into a 50 sqm single apartment in Berlin-Marzahn? Why? What was the single-family house built for in the first place? Exactly, to offer us something. That you can play in the garden. That you grow up in a good neighborhood and not in a multi-family bunker where drugs are dealt. According to some here, parents should immediately sell house and property once the children have moved out. Where is then the “homecoming place” for the children? Isn’t that exactly what’s beautiful about family? That you can always return – no matter where you are during the year – to where you grew up?

When I’m at that age with my wife and my children are 20 plus, I will be damned if I leave my dream house. They would have to come and get me. That’s why I’m building.

Some people really have opinions, wow.

Growing up in a good neighborhood and not in the apartment building bunker where drugs are sold.

It seems there is only black and/or white here. :rolleyes: Apartment building = drug trafficking hub. wonderful :D One really wonders where some people actually live?

The stylistic device of exaggeration as counterargument seems to be completely unfamiliar to some people here :)

It's not about moving out at 60 when everyone is fit and healthy. Since her mother's death, my colleague has been driving 400 km to the Taunus every other weekend to take care of her 75-year-old father. Sometimes she also goes during the week using flexible working hours or vacation to accompany her father to doctor's appointments. Her sister lives even further away, so everything depends on her. All offers for him to move closer to the children are rejected.

In my family, those over 80 obviously do it alone :cool:

So, topic construction costs: current offer to remove two load-bearing walls with heb 160 (7.6 m total) steel beams and reinforcement of a wall in the basement with heb 100 including disposal of construction debris comes to 11k net in Baden-Württemberg.

Does anyone else have current construction costs to contribute? :D

Why? Isn't the selection of tenants somewhat controlled, who fits with whom (openness, attitude...), different age groups, family status...? I think good neighborhood has to be actively promoted.

Is the selection of tenants controlled? It should be residents... No, it is not. Where many little kings are involved, individual owners own one or more apartments. Some live in them themselves and others rent to whoever they want. I only manage communal property and no people, which I am quite glad about. The longevity of rental managers is even lower. It is not that good neighborhood has to be actively promoted: everyone who lives there should live it! For this, the residents should not wait for any kind of higher authority (which the WEG manager is not, by the way). Sociology provides numbers on how many members a group can have before it splits into factions. In the properties I know, this is far exceeded. There are personal distances which, if undershot, cause conflicts; I very often do not see that reflected. There are numbers on how many new individuals an existing group can integrate without things becoming critical, which are widely exceeded in entire city districts where I observe this.