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A 24-year-old first-home buyer thought he was sharing one of the biggest moments of his life when he revealed he’d put an offer on an apartment. Instead of a congratulations, he was hit with a savage response from a friend that has since sparked outrage online. The young man shared the text exchange on Reddit after what he said was a crushing reaction to news he had hoped would be met with excitement.
“Guess who just put an offer down on a condo?” he messaged his friend. But rather than celebrate the milestone, she replied with a pointed jab: “Your parents?” He went on to explain the apartment was one he had been interested in for months and that it had unexpectedly come back on the market after a previous sale fell over. MORE NEWS ‘Zero mortgage’: Family ditches Australia for Italy ‘Mistake’: Brit reveals why he regrets leaving Aus ‘Disgraceful’: Families told to surrender backyards “Apparently the seller fell through and the owner needs to sell it quickly now so they stooped their offer down,” he wrote back.
“With the money I’ve saved plus the inheritance I got from my granddad passing two years ago I’m hoping that I’ve got the place.” Buying your first property is supposed to be cause for celebration, but one young man’s exciting update quickly turned sour after a friend mocked his apartment purchase. Source: @Ryeguy_626/Reddit What followed was not support, but a lengthy critique of his decision. The friend told him she believed buying an apartment was “an extremely poor choice” and warned he was making “a reckless decision”.
“I just feel spending all that to live in a cubicle is an extremely poor choice,” she wrote. She then argued he would regret not waiting until he could afford a house, saying he would eventually want more room, a yard, privacy and space for a future partner or family. “I just don’t see it as owning as you have such a small space with a whole bunch of neighbours and building management to deal with.
Just seems like a poor choice,” she said. The messages continued, with the friend listing what she saw as the downsides of apartment ownership, including yearly maintenance fees, the need for approvals to renovate, less privacy and slower growth if he chose to sell later. “Your life and your choices, but I feel you are jumping the gun and making a reckless decision,” she added.
The friend sent long texts, as shared on Reddit, as to why the purchase was a bad idea. Source: @Ryeguy_626/Reddit Despite the criticism, the young buyer kept his reply measured. “That’s fair and I appreciate you looking out for me but I’m so excited this is all I’ve wanted for a long time now,” he responded.
“And if I meet someone and we want to start a family or move in together, we’ll get a different place and can cross that bridge when it’s time.” But the conversation only grew colder. “Well best of luck then lol,” the friend replied. “I can’t wait for the ‘you were right’.” He responded with a final barb of his own: “Thanks!
Good thing I don’t have a lot to move.” Sharing the exchange online, the 24-year-old said the pair had once been close, but he had noticed his friend becoming “progressively distant and meaner” over the past few months. “When I shared the news, I was expecting at least a ‘congratulations’ and this is what I got,” he wrote. “I thought it was time ...
I decided to cut off a friend.” He even went as far as to call the decision “reckless”. Source: @Ryeguy_626/Reddit He said the purchase would be a major upgrade on his current living situation, with the young man still living at home and confined to a small bedroom in his parents’ house. “This is going to be a huge upgrade for me,” he said.
“The place I put an offer on is 1400-square-foot and is nearly the same size as the house I’m currently in – let alone the fact that I live with my parents and my only personal space is a small bedroom.” He added that his friend had long known how much buying a home meant to him. “She knows I’ve been saving up for a place for a long time and she knew how much it meant to me yet still said what she did,” he wrote. Many readers were also surprised to learn the friend was herself renting with her boyfriend.
“That’s a whole lot of wrong words to say, ‘Congratulations I’m happy for you’. What a bad friend,” one person wrote. “I’d block and never look back.
This response is so awful. I can’t believe there are people so miserable out there,” another said. A third added: “That is not your friend.
That is a person actively hoping you fail and have things go terribly for you so they can have a nice ‘I told you so’.”
Source: realestate.com.au
