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Pays someone else's mortgage and calls it flexibility.
means Someone who pays regularly to use property they don't own, trading ownership for mobility.
from From 'rent,' tracing to Latin 'reddita' (things given back/paid), via Old French 'rente' — a payment returned periodically for use of something. The financial sense of regular payment predates the word's narrowing to housing; English picked it up around the medieval period for any recurring income or fee, long before it meant a tenant's monthly check to a landlord.
- legal status
- tenant in the eyes of the law
- freedom cost
- can leave in a year, not a decade
- equity earned
- zero, but no roof repairs either
- landlord relationship
- friendship that ends at rent increases