It started with an intense desire for home ownership. Does this come from a selfish need to “own” things, or am I just a savvy investor and know that the numbers work better for home ownership vs. renting?* It could be due to spending a large portion of my childhood in rentals. I vividly remember an afternoon where I added up the amount of rent my mom had paid over several years in one of the apartments where we lived. I was shocked at how we/she could have owned something, b