• @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    By renting a home, you’ll pay 1300 a month for the rest of your life.

    By buying a home, you’ll pay 800 dollars a month for the rest of your life, with the occasional 5 - 10 thousand dollars surprises every now and again.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Except in the end you can also sell that house for $600k-$900k+ at 65 years old then use half of that to rent the next 30 years and have the rest to do whatever the fuck you want.

        • @Enk1
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          31 year ago

          Not true, unfortunately. Insurance and property taxes go up and payment on those is typically held in escrow with your mortgage. If you’re unfortunate enough to live in a state with a clown taint for a governor, like say Ron DeSantis, your mortgage payment could, for example, go up by $600/month this year. Ask me how I know.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            Insurance and property taxes aren’t part of the mortgage outside of an escrow account, so yes, it is true.

            Regardless, the point is still that rents will increase a lot more than monthly overhead for owning.

          • @Kage520
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            21 year ago

            Florida has a really great Homestead though, capping your property tax increases to 3% per year. For the insurance, you can probably get Citizens, which isn’t great but it’s something.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        So long as the government continues to exercise control over supply to ensure that your investment goes up. There are places like Japan where the value of your home decreases over time because they build new housing when its needed.