>Please explain this again. I think you understood it right the first time. you're just deliberately choosing to miss the point. To put it in your snarky-ass

>Please explain this again. I think you understood it right the first time. you're just deliberately choosing to miss the point. To put it in your snarky-ass tone: Contrast owning a home to renting an apartment. Your landlord could double your rent, or choose to stop leasing. They can put off maintenance while forbidding you from working on it yourself. They can show you an awesome demo unit then give you something else with worse appliances and a terrible paint job and now you're stuck with it. You can have a noisy neighbor move in and the only thing separating you from them is one paper-thin wall. You can pay tons more more for dedicated parking or roll the dice and hope someone doesn't steal the last spot out front. You're completely at the mercy of the housing market: if the market goes up, no matter what you have to pay the new prices when your lease is up, since every place near your work will be raising rates too. And now you're paying double a mortgage for a shitty one-bedroom with a smoker living across the hall drifting the stink into your home. But at sure, you can pay 3x your rent to break your lease and move to another state whenever you want, since normal people totally do that all the time.