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SHOW IH: Rent vs Buy? My new Side Project is just about to answer this question ;)

Hi, my fellow IndieHacker! For the last 3 weeks I was crunching the numbers around the internal question:

  • "Should I buy a house or keep renting and invest + grow my savings?"

As I love to craft things on a side I just about to launch my new Side Project with the result of my

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    Awesome work, Alex! It's an amazing way to enliven the ideas shared by the "bare foot investor".

    I've also added your website to SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com/rent-vs-buy-alternatives . You can verify it and improve the listing there.

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      Awesome, thanks Stan!

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    Great work. Reminded me of a NYT article that accomplishes a similar goal: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html

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    I like what you're doing with your data. Very cool!

    I literally just got off the phone with zillow offers (comparing them to offerpad and traditional home sales). They have a similar process in evaluating the metrics.

    I'd love to see how you could perhaps simplify the experience in a way that could reduce the time it takes to answer the questions.

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