{"id":200,"date":"2007-04-11T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2007\/04\/renting-is-better-than-buying\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T16:26:22","slug":"renting-is-better-than-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/04\/11\/renting-is-better-than-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting Is Better Than Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"

This person<\/a> seems to think renting a house is more beneficial than buying. Given the fact that I have already built up enough equity in my home to not only pay off the mortgage, but to take in cash the value of my mortgage (in other words, my house has doubled in value), I have to disagree in my case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This person seems to think renting a house is more beneficial than buying. Given the fact that I have already built up enough equity in my home to not only pay off the mortgage, but to take in cash the value of my mortgage (in other words, my house has doubled in value), I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-3e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3807,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/09\/23\/how-landlords-exploit-renters\/","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":0},"title":"How landlords exploit renters","author":"Kim Siever","date":"23 September 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"People don\u2019t agree with me when I tell them that landlords exploit their renters to make money.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":633,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/07\/17\/solution-to-canadas-economic-woes\/","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":1},"title":"Solution to Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic woes","author":"Kim Siever","date":"17 July 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Received this today via email. 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