The Great Debate: Buying vs Renting Your Home (SB1677)

The Stacking Benjamins Show

Joe Saul-Sehy | Cumulus Podcast Network

Investing, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Buying vs. renting: it’s one of the most emotionally charged—and financially misunderstood—topics in personal finance. This week on The Stacking Benjamins Show, Joe Saul-Sehy, OG, and guests Jesse Cramer and Chris Luger enter the ring to challenge the conventional wisdom behind homeownership. It’s not just a polite chat. It’s a full-on basement debate where no side goes unchallenged. You’ll hear: The surprising math behind renting—and why it’s not “throwing money away” What most homeowners don’t budget for (and pay dearly for later) Why buying a house might be one of the best—or worst—decisions you ever make How lifestyle, mobility, and flexibility factor into long-term wealth The emotional traps, practical benefits, and tough tradeoffs on both sides Plus, Mom’s neighbor Doug gets into full trivia-host mode with a Star Wars challenge, and we sprinkle in some good-natured jabs, marketing wisdom, and a reminder that there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. If you’ve ever bought a home, sold one, rented, or even thought about doing any of the above—this episode will make you think twice. FULL SHOW NOTES: https://stackingbenjamins.com/renting-vs-buying-forever-1677 Deeper dives with curated links, topics, and discussions are in our newsletter, The 201, available at https://www.StackingBenjamins.com/201 Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.2	And this is the Wayback Machine. We're traveling through time. And this is the Wayback machine for traveling through time.
0:40.3	And this is my boy, Sherman.
0:42.6	Speak Sherman.
0:43.5	Hello.
0:44.4	Good boy.
0:49.5	Live from the basement of the YouTube headquarters, it's the Stacking Benjamin Show.
1:05.3	I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and here's a question.
1:08.4	Buy or rent.
1:09.9	One fin fluencer, oh God, I just threw up in my mouth a bit
1:13.4	saying that word, said he will never own a house again. What's he thinking? We'll debate it with
1:19.7	our crack team of financial podcasters and bloggers and also the three people on this episode.
1:25.5	But that's not all, of course. We'll pause halfway through to see who's going to win today's edition of my year-long trivia challenge.
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