I agree with you treblegnome. I'm in the same...

2011-05-02T14:34:35.338-04:00

I agree with you treblegnome.

I'm in the same shape. Rent keeps jumping all around yet the places to rent are getting worse and worse. This must be one of the advantages of hard working Americans with Capitalism.

My fiance and I were about to get financed to buy a house at $450 a month until the housing market and credit crashed. Now we have to rent for $550 and up. We are jumping from rental to rental as the prices to rent never stay the same for a year.

Where are all of us poor people going to go?

I disagree. Rent is overpriced in my state. I rent...

2010-04-17T14:24:08.241-04:00

I disagree. Rent is overpriced in my state. I rent a falling apart 1974 mobile home for $600 a month when I could get a much larger house and a mortgage payment of only $400 (real estate prices are rather low here) a month if I had better credit. I have poor credit in the first place because my income is low and my rent is too high and I can not afford to cover all my expenses. It has nothing to do with entitlement. I'd be perfectly happy to rent if it actually made sense but payments this high only damage my credit even further. A mortgage with a lower monthly payment would mean that not only would all my bills get paid on time, but I would also be investing in something I would own. No I can not just take on an extra job, my husband already works two low wage jobs and I work part time teaching piano lessons when I'm not caring for our kids, and no I can not find a lower priced rent, I am already in the cheapest dump we could find. I realize this is an old post but reading it really made me angry....

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I agree with you treblegnome. I'm in the same...

I disagree. Rent is overpriced in my state. I rent...