Buying a Home 44% Cheaper Than Renting, Despite Rising Prices + MORE

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By Movoto

If you’ve been reading the Movoto blog for a while, you’ll know that in addition to real estate, we’re also kind of crazy about video games. This borderline obsession has led us to examine such highly practical things as how much Mario’s coins would be worth in real life and the value of Bowser’s castle…

Filed under: NewsEditor’s note: Jed Kolko is the chief economist for online listings site Trulia. This article originally appeared on the Trulia Trends blog.

Even though asking home prices rose 7 percent in the last year, outpacing rent increases of 3.2 percent, the gap between buying and renting has narrowed only slightly…

What were we thinking? Flip Rehabs Then and Now
Melissa and I were looking at pictures of some of the rehabs we had done in the past.
Woah.
Some of those things were down right terrible! I don’t know what we were thinking. Some of them were even done after we had already had several years experience…

Mark your calendars: Saturday April 20 and Sunday April 21 are the 2013 Nationwide Open House days.
This annual event is promoted by the National Association of Realtors. There will be literally hundreds of thousands of open houses those days all across the nation. For all of us, this is a FABULOUS opportunity to take advantage of TONS of FREE marketing!
Prepare now for this exciting weekend when buyers from coast to coast will be out touring open properties…

Tim Geithner is selling his Bethesda home. Source: Curbed
It looks like Tim Geithner will not be using his Bethesda, MD home to pen his new book. The former U.S. Treasury secretary and his wife have listed their Beltway dwelling for sale, now that one of the key players in the Obama administration’s economic recovery team has left his post…