Until you’re actually ready to buy, renting is never a waste of money. But I don’t want you renting forever. Your most expensive line item in your budget is housing. So when you rent, the most expensive thing you spend money on is out of your control, variable and increasing. That is not scalable or sustainable long-term. Because what you’re paying in rent now is nothing compared to what it will be 10 or 20 years from now. When you buy on a fixed-rate 15-year mortgage (like I recommend), you now

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