True, but you'd have to pay tax either way (e.g. don't have a rental and pay capital gains, though this is minimized if you're a first time homeowner), is what

True, but you'd have to pay tax either way (e.g. don't have a rental and pay capital gains, though this is minimized if you're a first time homeowner), is what I'm saying. Though, the cool thing is that if your house is a rental (as opposed to residential) you can actually offset depreciation recapture by passive loss throughout the time the property was a rental. Often this completely negates the tax. Man... too many benefits are given to those who own property.