Owning a home isn’t really the great investment over renting it’s made out to be imo. The historical growth of a homes value before the madness of the last 3 years was 3% annually. If you can get a great interest rate under 5% and your home balloons in value? Sure. But if it’s normal equity growth situation, you have a high interest rate, factor in property taxes, maintenance, the fact you lose a percentage in agent fees when you sell, if you make over a certain amount with the sale you have capital gains tax, etc I would never consider buying a house if I was a single guy. Being a family of 5 we really didnt have a choice with the rental market in our area and it was a cost we wanted for our kids, but I don’t view my house as a great investment by any means.