Is owning always better if property taxes cause your monthly housing payments on a 250k house to be $500-750 more than renting? If you add in maintenance, the amount is at least another $2500 per year. Rent goes up but so do taxes. At what point does renting win over buying or does it ever...

Wife wants to move to another state. The problem is that I did some major renovations to our current house without letting the state know about it. Examples are: breaking down a non bearing wall to expand a room, replaced knob and tubing and rewired to modern, tore down plaster walls and...