I want Corissa to discover the joys of home ownership (especially buying during a bubble, only to see it pop) so badly, I'm practically salivating at the prospect.
This is a woman who can barely get up and move any more, and spends every winter moping about how depressed she is, and she's going to take care of a house and yard? Our mega-consoomer gorl is going to
love throwing all her disposable income into repairs, improvements, and maintenance, because no way is she going to have the energy or stamina to do any of it herself, even if she did know how to DIY it--and like J's going to be any help? Yeah, dream on. J is literal deadweight.
Lots of people are better off as perennial renters; there's no shame in that. Corissa's one of them. If I was her bff, I'd try to talk her out of it, and recommend far better long-term investments, if that's what she's after. But because she is who she is, I hope she does get a house, and discovers firsthand just what a massive time- and money sink it is.
All of her wailing about how terrible the homebuying process is no doubt stems from trying to get approved for a loan--which, I'll give her, can be stressful as fuck the first time, and feel really invasive. For a Narc with outsized notions of what she deserves, exposing all of the inner workings of her finances so others can judge her fitness to receive a loan is not going to be any fun at all. She probably doesn't have much for a down payment, and her income is from multiple sources, many of which are less stable than a lender would like to see. And who even knows how much consoomer debt she's already got.
And even if she has managed to get approved, it might not be enough to buy her the kind of house she has in mind. Most of us have fantasies of what kind of house we'd like, but unless we're wealthy and money is no object, we aren't going to get all of that--there's a lot of trade-offs to be made, and a lot of homebuyers end up having to settle for something that's not ideal, but is at least good enough.
I do find it interesting that she's wailing about her struggles against the evil capitalist system to buy a house so close on the heels of Anna/glitterandlazer's home-buying manufactured drama. It may be coincidental, but it's interesting nonetheless.