能租何必买？

老房子修起来累死了，有时候真烦，看看这一篇，说得很有道理,


Why own when you can rent?
By MP Dunleavey
MSN Money


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Putting your money where your life is

Lately I've found myself doing a new sort of math on the cost of owning a home and whether my financial and life priorities are adding up.

We have about $50,000 sunk into our house (although it wouldn't be doing much better in the market). Our mortgage and taxes come to an affordable $1,350 per month. But that doesn't include the long list of repairs the house requires -- thousands of dollars' worth and counting.

And with a 95-year-old house, the repairs aren't likely to lessen over time. They'll just be different each year.

Money may be tight, but that doesn't mean you have to stop spending altogether. Rather, use these tips to get the most joy for your cash.
This past week, faced with all these expenses, I found myself considering a radical new approach to our lives:

What if we shared the ownership of this old house (and all its repairs) with two or three other families? That would dramatically ease the financial drag of maintaining one big home (buh-bye, American dream). We could rent a small apartment and ditch our car for an occasional car share. Then we could spend our money on seeing the world and doing things (such as visiting friends) instead of on chimneys and deck repairs and paint jobs and transmissions.


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Full text:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/why-own-when-you-can-rent.aspx?page=2

所有跟帖： 

• 蓦然回首, 那房却在, 灯火阑珊处. ~:~ -daysofreckoning- ♂ (47 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 10:46:23

• 什么是有意义的大事呢？？ -比花花还花- ♂ (348 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 12:25:16

• If you can not figure out what is meanful in life, -daysofreckoning- ♂ (34 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 14:51:03

• 笨蛋亚 -比花花还花- ♂ (156 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 15:52:16

• 其实当年你问过我问题, 可我没说你苯呢. ~:~ -daysofreckoning- ♂ (61 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 16:46:58

• 有人觉得从银行挖钱就是大事, 你说他能做基督和孔子吗? -daysofreckoning- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 14:55:02

• Teach you some thing, how about invention? -daysofreckoning- ♂ (683 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 15:18:31

• let me teach you something. -比花花还花- ♂ (226 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 15:56:51

• I have my friends here. They like to hear what I present. -daysofreckoning- ♂ (39 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 16:48:43

• agreed! -比花花还花- ♂ (109 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 21:00:07

• I shared so much but guess if those preocupied with -daysofreckoning- ♂ (1036 bytes) () 05/06/2009 postreply 21:35:20