Com 156 Final

Home Ownership or Renting

It's all About Getting the Most for the Dollar

Home ownership has distinct advantages over renting property. Landlords and property management firms make hard sale pitches on the advantages of renting versus ownership. Many refer to the advantages listed on Such as, fixed cost for the term of the lease, flexibility in moving, and the ill perceived thought that there is a smaller initial outlay of money. However, they fail to discuss the advantages of home ownership as identified by Elizabeth Wentraub in her article "Buy a Home" that is posted online at Wentraub discussed that even though real estate values are cyclical; in the long term real estate...