>your opportunity cost is 0.
not really, you still need to factor in the cost of capital (ie. downpayment) and the risk that the housing market might collapse.
not really, you still need to factor in the cost of capital (ie. downpayment) and the risk that the housing market might collapse.
I disagree - if you're talking about bubbles collapsing that's true no matter how you store your money, e.g. inflation ruining savings, stock market correction, etc.
You need a place to live anyway and government incentives will reduce your cost of living far below renting anyway.
What is true is that you drastically reduce your liquidity but I already presumed that in the scenario anyway by saying staying a few years (any housing correction historically will be resolved in a few years), if applicable