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- From: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
- Subject: Re: Info on renting/buying
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.182819.8416@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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- Reply-To: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
- Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
- References: <921112651@danix.UUCP> <1992Nov13.181621.18688@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1550@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> <1992Nov17.133812.28656@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:28:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.133812.28656@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jadams@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (adams,john) writes:
- >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 :^{!
-
- We seem to have lost the gist of what I was trying to say, not to mention
- the attribution.
-
-
- Problem around here is that over the last few years prices have been
- declining. Even if they hold steady you have to make or save enough
- money to pay all the expenses of buying and selling, 2% loan points,
- 6% real estate commission, etc. If you bought a $185,000 dollar house
- two years ago you'd be lucky to get $165,000 for it today if you had
- to sell. So you loose $20,000 equity plus $15,000 in buying and selling
- expenses. It takes alot of tax saving to make up for that. Hopefully
- housing prices won't continue to decline but it is going to take
- several years to make your investment worthwhile.
-
- I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't
- buy, I just bought a new house myself, just that you better plan to
- stick around for a few years if you want to make it worthwhile. The
- poster I was answering sounded like he wasn't ready to commit to
- a particular location yet.
-