^^I think about this sometimes.
My apartment is contingent on my employment for one.
And I have personally done a lot of work on our apartment to make it look as nice as it is. We obviously get personal use out of it(as I am not going to live in shit, which...it totally was) but really, I've increased the value for someone else, not me.
But on the flip side...we pay an embarassingly low amount on rent. In fact, we're pretty close to 1 bedroom rent, for something significantly more than 1 bedroom