Maintenance isn’t too difficult or too expensive

Are you joking? Getting quality contractors (or doing it yourself) is quite a bit of work and often quite expensive. It's exponentially worse if other people are tearing your shit up because they don't care about other people's stuff.

You shouldn't take this as 'don't buy your own home', but I can't fathom where you thought properly maintaining a home isn't difficult or expensive. Go lookup prices on how expensive installing a new roof, AC, kitchen cabinets, or flooring is. And those are only some big-ticket items.