There are other costs to owning - maintenance, property taxes, closing costs, and your agents fee (when you eventually sell - unless you keep forever). I bought

There are other costs to owning - maintenance, property taxes, closing costs, and your agents fee (when you eventually sell - unless you keep forever). I bought a condo at age 24 in LA in 2002. I hated that the HOA could do things like, we need to fix the roofs, so pay up. We voted on it. Ditto re-paving the parkinglot ever x years. Damn if my first year in the condo was somehow fix everything year. Ugh.