• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    In a healthy housing market, there’s enough competition that renting is much cheaper than buying. Indeed, I remember it being that way when I was a kid. Over the course of my life, landlording went from something that retired people did for a very small additional income stream to a get rich quick scam.

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      5 months ago

      This.

      15 years ago, wifey and I talked of selling our home, renting (turnkey), and living off/investing the remaining equity.

      Today? Let’s just say that “the best laid plans something something…”