Renting vs. Buying a Home: The 5% Rule

Meet with PWL Capital: https://calendly.com/d/3vm-t2j-h3p Please note that while this content is broadly applicable, it was originally intended for a Canadian audience. You can't compare rent to a mortgage payment. This way of thinking about the rent versus buy decision is extremely flawed. Comparing a mortgage payment to rent is not an apples to apples comparison. In order to properly assess the rent versus buy decision, we need to compare the total unrecoverable costs of renting to the total unrecoverable costs of owning. That may sound like a complicated task, but I have boiled it down to a simple calculation. Referenced in this video: The Case for Renting a Home – Part 1 - https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-case-f... The Case for Renting a Home – Part 2 - https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-case-f... The Case for Renting - https://www.pwlcapital.com/resources/... The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2018 - https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/a... Read up on more investing advice, insights and white papers here. https://www.pwlcapital.com/teams/pass... ------------------ Follow Ben Felix on Twitter:   / benjaminwfelix   LinkedIn:   / benjaminwfelix   PWL Capital Blog Post: https://www.pwlcapital.com/rent-or-ow... Follow PWL Capital on: Twitter:   / pwlcapital   Facebook:   / pwlcapital   LinkedIn:   / pwl-capital   You can find the Rational Reminder podcast on Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RHWTH9... ------------------