[quote=scaredycat]being able to walk away is worth something.

I need to buya house for reasons out of my control[/quote]

I’m assuming your wife is the reason out of your control.

Wouldn’t it be just as big a problem if you bought and walked… as far as marital harmony. She wouldn’t be happy with that, would she?

I’m assuming she’s looking for stability (or at least the false sense of it.) If you enter into the transaction with the idea that you’ll walk if the prices dip… that isn’t stability.

It’s kind of like getting married with the idea that if it’s not perfect you’ll just get divorced… it’s a bad way to enter the transaction.