Is it Better to Buy or Rent?

Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 05:08pm  |  6 comments

Came across this nice calculator at the NY Times that lets you fill in a number of parameters to help make decisions about renting or buying. While prices are out of whack compared to income you are better off renting and investing the difference (if you have anything left over each month) rather than buying. [...]

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Someone forgot to refill the Real Estate ATM

Posted on August 26th, 2007 at 10:18pm  |  11 comments

There’s always a first for everything so I’m going to link to the New York Times:

Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes
I don’t really consider myself a pessimist, but I do pride myself on looking at the facts and coming to my own conclusions. To me the outlook of the housing market and the [...]

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