When Renting Is Smarter Than Buying
by Miriam Cross, Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Nov 27, 2019
2 minutes
I've been a happy renter since I moved to Washington, D.C., seven years ago. Neither of my apartments has been luxurious. But in an expensive city with limited housing, I paid below market rate for my first place (my roommate and I had our own bedrooms, thanks to a makeshift wall). Later, when I wanted to live alone, I landed an underpriced studio in a rent-controlled
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