Why High Rents Are Worse Than a Mortgage over the Long Term – Owning vs Renting If you’re at the stage in life where home ownership is nearly within your reach, you’re probably wondering whether you should start looking for a home or whether you should just keep renting – the old question of owning vs […]
Real estate ramblings – what’s going on here?
Just a couple of things I have been thinking about this week: 1. On Wednesday I attempted to make showing appointments on 7 houses. I was denied on 3 of them because the showing was not convenient to the seller. On 2 that I showed, there were spider webs in the keypad area of the […]
Buy vs. Rent – Trulia’s Index
Real Estate website, Trulia, has developed an index to advise consumers whether it is more cost effective to rent or buy a home. As with most data from the big RE sites like Trulia and Zillow, the index is based more on company-defined stats and algorithms than any subjective, boots on the ground, local input. […]