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Did you in any way add in

Submitted by Poe on September 4, 2007 - 14:01.

Did you in any way add in the possibility of appreciation into your calculations for home ownership? Did you factor in that over 30 years a house payment never goes up while rents surely do? Did you calculate savings you get every year on auto insurance and life insurance as a homeowner vs. a renter? Then their are the much harder to define, in terms of dollars, standard of life issues. Renting sucks in so many ways its almost impossible to count. How do you place a dollar and cents value on every single day of your life being better in a house than in an apartment?

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