It would be a closer analogy, but analogies aren't true or false, they are more or less useful in making a point. As it happens, my analogy was not that useful

It would be a closer analogy, but analogies aren't true or false, they are more or less useful in making a point. As it happens, my analogy was not that useful because apparently many people didn't understand it. The point I was trying to make was that flexibility, cost and location are actual things of value being provided in both cases. The fact that the duration differs is no more germane to my point than that one of them is mobile and the other not. And in no wise does the consideration of when it becomes more prudent to buy a car bear on when it is prudent to buy a piece of property.