Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive

Re:Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive by marcosdumay on Thursday August 13, 2015 @01:25PM (#10055798)

But by buying you are, you know, buying the actual house, and paying interest. While by renting you are just paying to use the house, and maintenance.

You are actually arguing that a house will fully depreciate in less time than it takes to pay for it. Well, it's not an extraordinary claim, but it's still not what I'd expect.

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Re:Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive by breischl on Thursday August 13, 2015 @01:51PM (#10055971)

No, I'm arguing that just comparing mortgage payments to rent payments leaves out a lot of the expenses involved in owning the property, such as maintenance.

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Re:Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive by marcosdumay on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:04PM (#10056072)

Maintenance is only cheaper than acquisition is the good will completely depreciate during the period you are maintaining it.

As I said, it's not an extraordinary claim.

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Re:Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive by breischl on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:16AM (#10060195)

I can't even parse that sentence.

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Re:Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive by marcosdumay on Friday August 14, 2015 @11:48AM (#10060777)

Sorry, you shouldn't be.

I meant: maintenance is only more expensive than the acquisition if the good will completely depreciate during the time you are maintaining it.

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