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It makes absolute sense, because maintenance costs are non-negligible. I just paid a fifteen thousand dollar plumbing bill. Since rent would include the ability to call the landlord to make him fix that, I sure would expect rent to be higher for the same place than my mortgage is.

Last year I spent twenty grand on a new roof. What's next? Idk, but that's why my mortgage isn't half of my salary. If it was rent, these things wouldn't be my problem.

That's the trade-off.