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		waffleiron 53 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US will ban Wall Street investors from buying sing... In a perfect world, but rent is often less significantly predictable than mortgage payments. Of course the cost of repairs and maintenance isn’t absorbed, it is paid in full by the renter in the cost of rent.

sokoloff 53 days ago [–]

Over the term of the lease agreement, rent is contractually predictable.

pphysch 53 days ago | [–]

Which is rarely longer than a year, and many people go month-to-month, if they even have a contract.

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