Rent vs. Buy

To Rent or To Buy? We’ll spare you the spreadsheet on this one.

Coffee or Tea? Portrait or Landscape? Eat in or go out? You make choices every day - get a little help from us on the big ones: Fixed or ARM? To rent or to buy? A CitiMortgage Mortgage Consultant can help figure out what’s right for you.

Buying a home can be a great investment that offers great returns with moderate risk. Some of the perks include:

• Equity – over time you can build equity (the value of your home minus what you owe).
• Appreciation – your home can increase in value over time.
• Ownership and the pride that goes with it


Once you compare the benefits of buying versus renting, it’s easy to see the advantage of owning – the biggest of which may be the opportunity to build equity.

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