We are all just being played by the banks. You can be a landlord too! Just work your ass off for 10 or 30 years and give the bank all your money. You immediately become the thing you hate. Want your money back? Not right now, it has to be repaired, you gotta pay a cut to the repair guy, a cut to the Realtors, a cut to the bank. Maybe in a few decades you can get your original money... Which is now devalued. So you must continue until you own the house "out right" more like yeah right. The banks own the house always, don't fool yourselves.