You're listening to a beautiful must podcast. This week we're spending the

entire episode chatting about decor inspiration for renters.

About half of the AVM audience rents and as former renters ourselves we know it comes with some

very unique challenges.

That said, decorating our apartments played a huge part in figuring out our

style and though it can be restrictive, it can also be super inspiring. Let's jump in.

So we rented for a long time and I used to move kind of a lot like I was

definitely like a serial mover through my 20s so about every six months to every

year I would move and I don't think I stayed in any house

I lived in for more than maybe a year and a half through my whole 20s.

So I definitely had a lot of apartments and Emma also did and some obviously better than others some you know that we loved in some way and some that we hated the whole time. But we decorated them the best we could

and we learned so much.

Do you agree that decorating an apartment

is a great education for yourself?

Yeah, definitely.

Here where I live in the Midwest, a lot of times you rent when you're younger and you buy when you're a little bit older.

But there's a lot of areas of the country where you rent forever. Like I just view it as where you live, you know, but the thing with

renting, like everyone who's currently doing it or has done it knows, sometimes

there are some rules around what you can and cannot do in your home because you don't own the

structure or you don't own the building that your apartment's in so they don't want you to knock

down walls or change the countertops necessarily or you know some various things like that so there can be a few more challenges or a few more things that you just can't do more rules than a homeowner although I will point out that a lot of the bigger things that homeowners can

do cost a lot more money.

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