This is a good one. I finally teamed up with family to invest in a house last year. I've found a lot of issues that I've since fixed, especially with the electrical. There's still a lot to fix, but I'm elated that I can actually take action to fix stuff.

While renting, my hands were severely tied. The only benefit with renting was that if anything was literally broken, it would be fixed by the landlord, free to me. "Fixed" is subjective, usually done as cheaply as possible, which is often making things less convenient.

Now I can have things fixed correctly, making things more convenient overall for me and my family.

Long term, we're planning on renovating and adding another kitchen and bathroom, possibly another entrance and I'm considering splitting the HVAC for one portion of the place and almost splitting it into two independent homes that are conjoined.