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In Reply to: to answer your questions posted by need help on March 14, 2005 at 18:53:42:
*It seems a waste to rent when that money could be going into the house we would like to buy. Any thoughts on that?*
Ha! My wife tells me the exact same thing. She says we could be building equity and we're paying the landlord's bills for him. But after all these years of wanting to get into a house & we're STILL renting. We want to get into a house but it's not all that easy, even though we have jobs. If you don't have jobs yet & a steady income, it's even more difficult.
Renting has its upsides. If you own & want to move you've got huge hassles selling & moving on. If you're renting, you just give one month's notice & you're outta there. Let's say you move to a big city & find it's not good on your kids, the job wasn't there, etc. etc. so you want to move to a smaller city. It's easy if you rent, hard if you own.
Again, most young couples (without the added economic responsibility of 6 kids) spend the first 5 years renting before they can buy. It's often the way things are.
If your husband has ESL skills, then you'd want to be near a fairly-large city to take advantage of the large immigrant population there needing English help.
Do either of you speak Japanese fluently? Your husband might find a job working for a Japanese company over here. If you only speak a smidgin, just enough toget by, that's probably not an option.
