[quote=svelte][quote=joec]One thing that may throw a monkey wrench in your planning is when you and your significant other decide to get married/have kids, then there will be a massive nesting instinct and you will be “forced” to buy no matter what.
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True, true.
On the other hand, unless he marries whomever he’s buying this current place with, they will force him to sell and buy something else anyway.
Brides who marry a man who already owns a home usually don’t want to make their nest in the place he spent his bachelor days in.[/quote]
Agree with Svelte’s suggestion that many women would not like to “nest” in the home where their husband lived with another woman.
OTOH, it’s not always the woman who pushes to buy vs. rent. In my family’s case, I’m the one who pushed to sell the house that I bought before marriage so that we could rent and rent/bubble-sit for a few years. My husband desperately wanted to buy another house right away.
It’s not a man vs. woman thing, but more of an emotional thinker vs. rational thinker issue.
