I have owned, sequentially, not all at once!, three house and four condominiums in this city.  I have never liked dealing with maintenance issues and I've never been highly motivated to decorate or fix things up or renovate.  Overall the reasons for all these moves has largely come down to noise from neighbours.  But also the fact that I don't like the bother of taking care of or fixing things.

I ended up in condos because there is less to deal with but I have come to find, in my senior years, that I just don't want to be bothered with maintenance.  Condo living was supposed to be carefree but I'm finding as this building ages that more and more things are deemed by the board and management to be the owner's problem to cope with.  And I just don't feel like coping.  

Also, with this, we seem to be going through another period in the building where there's a whole series of owners doing renovations, one after another, so I'm faced with days and days  drilling and banging and thumping.  

A couple of years ago I was looking into a senior's independent living rental building.   I thought any repairs would be a building project and not a long series of owner projects.  I also like the idea of appliances, repairs, hearing etc not being my problem.  But then the condo market fell in Toronto and I put it off since I would have lost a lot of, granted only potential, money in the sale.  But I'm staring to feel that maybe it would be worth just taking the hit and getting out of here.

Including taking a hit for selling "as is" instead of trying to repair the things that I have been "living with" and "working around" instead of dealing with repairs.