When Does Renting Make More Sense Than Buying?

John Amah
4 min readJan 24, 2021

Striking the balance between renting and purchasing a home

Photo by Chalo Garcia on Unsplash

When you’re looking to upgrade your finances, there’s one piece of advice you’ll hear over and over: Buy a home! You’ll pay more in the short term, but once the mortgage is paid off, you’ll have a valuable asset that you can pass on to future generations, use for equity, or rent out to other tenants. But is that always good…

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