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Comment by jrs235

9 days ago

That makes more sense though. Since one can't easily take a home with them (it's fixed to the ground), renting a dwelling provides flexibility and liquidity for life changing events.

You might be interested to learn a huge percentage of people pay rent to sleep in a trailer park, where the houses very much have wheels.

  • Many of these people are in essentially double financialized situations, where they have a loan on the mobile home and they pay monthly pad fees to the trailer park.