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Originally Posted by supafamous

Back before I got married (pre-2014) it was sorta a condition of getting married that we'd buy a house which I was against b/c I said that renting made better sense but we got married so a duplex got bought 5.5 years ago and today if I rented it it'd probably cost around $4800/mo versus the $2800 mortgage I'm paying now. All for a downpayment of $225k back in the day while the value has gone up about $400k since.

Wifey was right (but I'm not gonna tell her.)

Haha when my gf (now wife) moved in, pretty much she was set on wanting to buy. Similarly, we did end up buying in 2015, and in hindsight it was the right call for the same reason. Around that time was when rents started going up it seems like and the economics of rent & invest was no longer advantageous.

So yes, my wife was right as well.