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Comment by Foobar8568

6 months ago

I rather pay a rent than putting 250k on a down payment and still have to pay a rent amount for 15-25 years.

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mavhc  6 months ago

But you're then left with owning something probably worth more than you paid in total

  • lesuorac  6 months ago

    It's not.

    Buy-vs-rent is nearly always monetarily in favor of rent.

    250k down payment is ~20% of 1.3 million which at ~6.5% comes out to you paying ~2.4 million. This doesn't include maintenance, insurance, or taxes.

    I have a bunch of calculators in this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794529) but that thread also has a lot of other people explaining the same thing.