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- From: jadams@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (adams,john)
- Subject: Re: Info on renting/buying
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:38:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.133812.28656@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1550@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
- >>don't worry too much about
- >>the rent money just going into someone else's pocket, for the first
- >>couple of years of owning a house you are only putting a few dollars
- >>a month towards equity anyway.
- >
- >True. But the interest payments are tax-deductible. Rent isn't.
-
- Also, the opportunity for your down payment (equity) to appreciate (tax
- sheltered) doesn't exist with renting. Well, maybe someday residential real
- estate will appreciate :^{!
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