{"id":261599,"date":"2020-08-06T07:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=261599"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:28:23","slug":"rent-dont-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/rent-dont-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent, Don&#8217;t Buy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have an option, always better to rent instead of buying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, if you technically are a quadrillionaire&#8230; the best life is the life with the least amount of stress, worry, and bullshit. This means renting is superior:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No stress associated with maintenance, upkeep, and bullshit. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example I got some rich friends and they tell me the stress associated with having to maintain their properties in the south of France. But the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Their bank account (overseas) is locking them out. Therefore they gotta go through all this bullshit (hoops) to un-lock their international bank account. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In praise of renting cars, Uber, and rental properties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is clear. No hidden things. If you buy something, you often get suckered. If you rent a property, if there is any problems you can &#8216;peace out&#8217; (leave) anytime you want. Same goes with renting a car, or even taking an Uber somewhere. No stress of parking, maintaining the car (getting registration, smogged, etc). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/true-luxury-is-via-negativa\/\">The true and ultimate luxury is having the luxury of not having to own anything!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an option, always better to rent instead of buying. Why? First of all, if you technically are a quadrillionaire&#8230; the best life is the life with the least amount of stress, worry, and bullshit. This means renting is superior: No stress associated with maintenance, upkeep, and bullshit. For example I got some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ERIC-KIM-rock-workout-00024-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261604,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261599\/revisions\/261604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}