{"id":744,"date":"2011-09-21T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:28:59","slug":"is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"IS IT BETTER TO RENT OR BUY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOW THE NUMBERS:\u00a0 insurance, taxes, utilities, maintenance vary widely, so get estimates before you buy.\u00a0 (2) pay attention to umemployment statistics.\u00a0 High jobless rates can dampen housing price appreciation.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 search CityData.com for financial and demographic information on various neighborhoods.\u00a0 With INTEREST RATES AT AN ALL TIME LOW this is a good time to buy.\u00a0 Yes, prices could DROP more, but very difficult to know the bottom.\u00a0 A realestate rule of thumb holds that you should rent if the home price is greater than 15 times the annual cost to rent.\u00a0 For a more precise answer, AARP&#8217;s interactive calculator at\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 aarp.org\/rentorbuy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 can compare the cost of buying and maintaining a homes with rental payments.\u00a0 Get our your calculator so you can figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOW THE NUMBERS:\u00a0 insurance, taxes, utilities, maintenance vary widely, so get estimates before you buy.\u00a0 (2) pay attention to umemployment statistics.\u00a0 High jobless rates can dampen housing price appreciation.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 search CityData.com for financial and demographic information on various neighborhoods.\u00a0 With INTEREST RATES AT AN ALL TIME LOW this is a good time to buy.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}