buying just isn't an option for me because i'm not willing to do the whole paying taxes bullshit until i had the money to acquire title and i would not even consider doing it somewhere that the ongoing fees to keep that claim were more than some reasonable amount contributing to abutting roads and drainage... i hope i can own something some day but most likely when i do it's going to be a patch of marginal land in the middle of nowhere far away from everything anyhow i hate being stuck next to other people because invariably they have stupid yapping dogs, the local council is corrupt and disgusting, and inevitably someone is going to put an ugly tower block in the way of any views that i might have had when i bought it it just doesn't make sense to me that you would pay less in the long run on rent versus a mortgage but if you are stacking renting makes more sense because although you are gonna pay more per time, the time will be less, and the giant lump sum fees and the administration bullshit are offloaded, which probably balances it out i don't think anyone actually makes money out of real estate, they are just drinking at the money spigot to slow down how fast the banks and government debase their net worth