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In This Day and Age - What Good is Owning a Home?
This is a great commentary on the reasons for buying, and function of, a home that seems to have been lost on this generation...along with sticks & mortar it's the sovereignty you are acquiring that really improves the quality of your life. 
A recent cover of Time Magazine featured the phrase, "Rethinking Homeownership" and dwelled on the downside of owning a home since we have been through some turbulent times.
This is doom and gloom of the worse kind.  A home may not be the ultimate piggy bank that it once was, but does that mean we should become a nation of renters?
Before we turn in our welcome mats and put away the "Home Sweet Home" plaques we may want to look at the opportunity that is here and the reasons to buy a home right now.
Quality of Life.  A rental property is not going to give you the standard of living that home ownership will.  Have you looked for a rental lately?  Regardless of the location you are in, you will not find the same quality as in a purchased home.  There are deals to be had.  Yes, it difficult to sell a home right now - and that makes is easy to buy one.  Many buyers have left with ... more

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