New from Chicago

[Lucas Hammer]

Hey everyone. I'm Lucas and I live in Albany Park, Chicago. For years, I thought I wanted to be a perennial renter, but especially with rent prices skyrocketing around me, I decided I'd look into buying my first condo. My biggest concern was not wanting to be stuck in a single place, so I started looking into the possibility of renting the condo out once we moved, and after talking it over with my wife, we decided to put an offer in and get a place before we get gentrified out of our neighborhood and then keep it when we move and start building our own wealth.

As it stands right now, I'm not an investor (yet) while we wait for the bank's reply on our SS offer, but one way or another we're doing this to eventually get out of our day jobs.