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Why I sold my house and choose to rent. The math shocked us.

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich in your life.

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Hey, frugal friends. I'm Jen.

I'm Jill.

And today we are talking about a controversial topic.

We're diving into buying versus renting a house and we're pushing it into more controversy. What if you already own a house

and decide to go back to renting? Is it a dumb idea or the right idea for you? Salacious.

Because Jill just made that huge decision herself and so by choice she's still obviously

living in St. Pete so I am going to be interviewing her today about her choice what started it

how the process went and now that she's been in this apartment

for about a month, the pros and cons of the choice. And I'm going to share our process,

the numbers, the emotions, everything involved. So you can decide if this might be something

worth considering for you, what's best for your lifestyle. So let's do it.

Because you know what? Renting is having a moment right now. Oh my God. Why aren't interest rates

coming down? I'll never be able to buy a home. Why do you want to buy a home so badly? You're

joking, right? If you're renting, you're an idiot loser who throws money into a

black pit. Everyone says so. Who's everyone? I rent the numbers and buying a house might be one of

the worst financial moves I could make right now. Everyone says renting is throwing away money,

but where I live, rent can be 30 to 50% cheaper than a mortgage payment. And what's crazy is

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