If you’re healthy and don’t eat meat they won’t stink, so much.

Personally, I don’t itemize, not worth the trouble and it wouldn’t pay anyway. Also, I find it easier to sell when I want to move than get out of a lease and easier and cheaper to buy if I pay cash than get into an apt with a lease and all the credit/background checks used these days. Buying and selling houses is…

No, no, no. One party, Corporatist, two wings, Democrat and Republican. Same goal.

It all comes down to cost. Basically rent vs. mortgage payment + expenses. Both are good deals if low enough. It didn’t used to be this way. My rent, even at about minimum wage was less than a quarter of my income and minimum wage was a lot lower then. You think housing is worth more now? Banks and realtors make the…

Cars are complicated piles of mechanical junk with a pretty shell on the outside. If we depreciated our houses like we do our cars we could all afford shelter and the banksters would have to use other credit traps to own us.