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dbnoho t1_ix102ek wrote

This logic is deeply flawed.

At this point a mortgage on a $1m house is >5k. Buying a $1m home will cost at least 7% ($70k) in transaction costs to buy and sell. Ignore that you need $200k down, cost of interest, opportunity cost of that money, maintenance, location considerations, etc. You’d still need to live in the house for years to even begin for it to makes sense vs renting.

Renting is not throwing your money away.

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Quirky_Butterfly_946 t1_ix12m9u wrote

Who said anything about million dollar homes? But, it fits your example so I guess you decided to use it.

And yes renting is a sucker deal

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