[asianthree]

If we would not have rented for three times we definitely would not have known where we want to live. Our first house we bought was just too small as was the garage. Second choice we knew was not the village we want to live in so we waited our time and the third time was the charm. It's the house we wanted the village we wanted. It runs us between 10,000 and $14,000 to run our houses. ( that's not a mortgage, we have no cable, phone, Internet) This year the last house was considerably more since it was preowned and there were things that needed to be fixed. Renting for a year or 2 frees up enough time to figure out where you want to be and what house you want to live in. Since TV is not cheap rent. Unless someone says they are renting, I have no idea. I did find that at our new house a few people down the street stopped while we were outside and yelled are you renters? So I have found that some are not very nice to those they think are renters. And how did we answer that rude person, we told them we were renters and to move on. That's not the people we want to call neighbors.