Getting Started 1. Managing Your Money 2. The Home Buying Process 3. Keeping Your Home
 
Benefits of Owning a Home
Deciding to Buy or Rent

 

How can you tell whether owning a home would benefit you?

A good way to find out is by comparing all the ways that home ownership can affect your life. Click each link below to learn about the advantages and disadvantages involved. Then, decide which apply to you.

Advantages Disadvantages

Hear an Experts' View

Hear an Expert's View

Click the image to hear a mortgage banking expert, Mr. Thomas Hendrickson of Associated Mortgage Group in Portland, Oregon, discuss how home ownership benefits everyone.

Note: If your computer does not have sound capability, click the Transcript link to read the comments.

Transcript

Discussion

Take a moment to think about the ways home ownership will affect you. Then read all the steps below to share your thoughts on home ownership.

Directions

    Caution: Before you begin, please be aware that you will need to click the Back button on your Web browser to return to the course.

  1. Click the Discussion Board button.

  2. Click the Benefits of Home Ownership.

  3. View the list of threads.

  4. Click OK. Then, click the Add New Thread button to share your thoughts on the benefits you think you will gain from home ownership.

  5. Click the Back button to return to the course.

The next topic continues to explore benefits by comparing the advantages of buying vs. renting.


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