This benefit is often overestated (especially in discussions focused on the parts of the country with the highest housing costs (which is to say, places unlike

This benefit is often overestated (especially in discussions focused on the parts of the country with the highest housing costs (which is to say, places unlike Texas)). This guy was paying $800/mo for rent, so presumably he'd be looking at mortgages near that cost. If so, he'd almost certainly just take the standard deduction.