↑ Upside

• What else are you going to do with $600,000 in cash?
• Home improvement opens up a huge world of things to fight about with your SO
• Whatever mistakes you make, you’re still a better real estate investor than Trump
• Portland’s final rite of passage: complaining about lack of on-street parking
• That 1920s bungalow definitely just needs a couple splashes of paint
• More space to hold your growing stack of mortgage documents
• Ironclad, foolproof investment in a market that never, ever dips
• If you like Twitter, you’ll love Nextdoor

↓ Downside 

• Zoning, schools, sewers, lost pets: all issues you now have to pretend to care about
• It’s everything you ever worked and saved for, and the basement leaks
• Can’t rail against gentrification until after you move in
• You’ll have to host all the BBQs for your apartment-dwelling friends
• Rate of being asked “so when are you having kids?” quadruples
• Cascadia Subduction Zone loses its whimsical side
• They can find you