Quote Originally Posted by MWCGuy View Post
It surprises me that Oklahoma City keeps allowing apartment complexes to be built. There needs to be a move for more home ownership. There are hundreds of vacant houses across the metro that could be filled.

For every complex built, another complex dies and you have the problems we see up down NW 10th and on Lyrewood Lane. The good tenants leave, the troublemakers move in. Eventually the complex closes and its fair game for squatters and arsonists.
That is called sprawl and the last time we had a national movement to promote home ownership it damn near collapsed the country. The reality is that 99% of the people aren't prepared to be homeowners. They don't have the time, resources, know-how, desire, and financial ability to properly maintain a home. That is why people constantly buy new ones instead of making repairs to their current homes. The new people move in and they lack the same things the first owner lacked and the house falls deeper into disrepair. Then this cycle repeats for 60 years.