- It does not count maintenance costs for a house.
- It counts appreciation of the home, but NOT investment of the monthly savings of renting vs owning. You would earn interest on this amount.
- It does NOT allow negative appreciation
Friday, August 19, 2005
Ditech.com 's Owning vs. Renting Calculator
Check out Ditech's online Owning vs Renting Calculator. Here are some problems that I found with the calculator:
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ReplyDeleteI would also disagree with the calculations by detech. Not only is there maintenance, but there are taxes, and sometimes negative appreciation (as what I experinced when I bought a townhouse near Hartford CT in 1989- and it was not until 2002, that it was worth what I paid for it 1989. Spin and BS -many people continue to get sucked into this bubble- but more are learning. Sad to say many will learn the hard way.
ReplyDeleteI entered data including a large-ish downpayment and the ditech calculator seemed tell me that I was better off investing my downpayment elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteNot a surprise indeed. But, rare is the person who finds it and points it out! Good job! Cole @ BigHousingBubble.
ReplyDeleteI also entered a real-life scenario of $700K, $2K rent, 6% fixed-rate and 40% down and it told me that I'd be better off investing my money and renting.
ReplyDeleteYeah, mine (see above) was similar, 800k, 30% down, 1600/mo rent, 5.8% interest.
ReplyDeleteGood find. I know a thing or three about Javascript, so I stole their source code and I'm working on revising it to provide a more complete comparison. Hopefully I'll have something worth looking at within a week on Seattle Bubble.
ReplyDeletethe tim,
ReplyDeletecool. Great idea. :-)
where can i get more review on ditech ? i want to see some complaints that they had recently
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