There are many incentives for buying a home. One of them is to simply get out of paying rent — but that isn’t to say that once you own your residence there aren’t costs that have to be paid on a regular basis.
If it’s a house it must be maintained, and if it’s a condominium there are monthly management and repair fees that can add up to as much as the rent of an apartment.
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