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    9 months ago

    It depends on where you live. Take Florida for instance, with the insurance companies abandoning you or filing bankruptcy just before paying a claim. It gets more expensive and as you age, maintenance gets harder to do, much less replace big appliances without paying someone to do it.

    If you’re young and strong and not working in an industry that breaks you, a mortgage may be smarter (and cheaper) than renting.

    Both has pros and cons; one strong con is that if you have a mortgage, you become geo-locked to your land and when you get a job offer that moves you outside of reasonable commute range, you have the extra headache of fixing the property up for sale and having the split attention of working at your new job and keeping in touch with the sales leads.

    If you’re older, renting may be better as if something breaks, the apartment manager takes care of it.

    So there’s a hidden cost to owning a home versus renting. You can almost count on renting being a fixed cost each month (rent + utilities + insurance) whereas a mortgage, you cannot.