Small Apartments Have Many Advantages

More and more people are interested in small apartments. One reason is today's fast pace of life – people dedicate themselves more to work and self-improvement, leaving little time spent at home. For many, home is mainly a place to rest, wash up, and change clothes.

Many clients turn to real estate agents with a specific desire to purchase a smaller apartment. These are usually either young singles starting out on their own or young families without children yet, but small apartments are also desired for a single elderly parent or a divorced spouse. Smaller apartments are also rented by students, either alone or in pairs.

When an apartment is purchased or rented for the first time in life, conflicting thoughts may arise: is the choice really right, is a small one- or two-room apartment really practical, is the quality-to-price ratio really fair.

To dispel these doubts, here are some of the main advantages of a small apartment:

• A small apartment is cheaper – since there are more small apartments on the real estate market, the selection is larger. If needed, you can always move from a small apartment to a larger one, and then it's easier to sell a small apartment since there is always great demand for them.
• A small apartment takes less time to clean – there is a big difference whether you need to wash seven windows or two! Plus, you don't accumulate unnecessary clutter at home because there is less space to store it.
• Renovation and maintenance costs for a small apartment are lower – a few rolls of wallpaper, a box of tiles and the renovation is done with minimal expenses! You can get the highest quality building materials very cheaply because inventory is sold off with great discounts. Savings on renovation costs can give you, for example, the opportunity to hire an interior designer.
• Furnishing doesn't cost much because a small apartment fits less furniture – so you can either set money aside for other purposes or buy more expensive furniture pieces and interior design elements.
• Minimalism is in fashion – Thriftiness and disregarding consumerism make you a trendy consumer of today who knows how to get rid of excess and let go of the unnecessary. A small apartment also can't accommodate a very large wardrobe and so you get used to making do with less and develop your own personal minimalist clothing style. With the money saved, you can travel to, for example, the fashion capital Paris!
• You can travel more – It has been observed that people living in small apartments are big travelers.
• A small apartment promotes togetherness; inevitably you have to interact with each other more. In tighter conditions, you learn to consider others and value them. Since escape options are limited, in case of conflict the only alternative is to reconcile at the first opportunity.
• The experience of living in a small apartment comes in handy and helps you get by in any corner of the world, especially in major cities in Europe and America, where city apartments are quite small. The same applies to Japan, where a city apartment typically has only 18 m2 of floor space.

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Article source: Arco Vara