Renting vs. Buying a Home: What People Get Wrong

People tend to assume that homes are great investments - they’re not, that mortgages are a wealth building hack - they help, but as much as some people think, that paying off a mortgage lowers your housing costs - it actually raises them, and that owning a home makes people happy - it might, but...

19 min - Money & Business - Ben Felix

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