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skorgu on Jan 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Renting vs. buying a home

It's safe-ish /as long as you continue to live there/. If you ever need to move for whatever reason you're back to the mercies of whatever market cycle happens to be in force.

clavalle on Jan 20, 2014 [–]

That's true. And the real risk in buying a primary residence is in churn costs which are relatively huge and take years to make up.

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