Most long term players know that buying a house is the worst thing you can do in the game due to how it got implemented. You lose the ability to drop the game for a while and come back fresh instead of being dragged through the game until it loses all it's magic. Believe me, I've been there. Just about everyone who left and said they would remember to log on at least once to keep their house while taking a three month or six month hiatus lost their house.

Specifically three or four people I had on my friends list who stopped at 5.2x and didn't log on even when I told them in discord that they were going to lose their plots. :x