Comments on: New Tool: Rent vs. Buy Calculator

By: connie

connie — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:07:06 +0000

hi, thanks for sharing your tools and downloads. I think there’s a huge whole in this one. It assumes that rent doesn’t go up yet the house value does. In reality, rent always goes up, even in a city with rent control there’s still plenty of allowable increases in rent.

By: d2cold

d2cold — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:18:15 +0000

Its another good calculator, except.. i doubt i would be able to find a house this nice or big to rent? While i might like the downsize idea, we recently just upsized (not entirely my choice) so calculator is a tough one to use.

I suspect its about breakeven for us to buy vs rent, but if i used home equity to invest it would likely give an edge to buying. My numbers assumed home prices rising an average 1% over 15 years and 6.5% annual investment returns.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:22:55 +0000

you dont happen to have this in excel format do you? would love to access this offline

thanks

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