It’s not that simple. It is mortgage+insurance+maintenance
Rent is just rent.
You MAY be able to resell the house if the location is somewhere people want to live in several decades. All it takes is a major economic source to dry up. A military base closing, a factory shutting down, etc can wreck your property value.
Ramit Sethi does a good job of breaking this all down WRT to home ownership vs renting. He basically says the same thing as you.
It was worth it for us to buy, so we did. We’ve already replaced the roof and the hot water heater, though, and the furnace is next. It adds up.
THANK YOU! I get so tired of: buy good. Rent bad. The answer is it depends. 2008 was only 15 years ago. Many people lost boat loads of money from it. People HAVE lost lots of money from factory closures, base closures, market bubbles, a highway being built, etc
The ideal situation is a variety of housing options, for sale and rent.
neanderthal
The Giant Korean