# Rent Vs. Buy Myths That Ruined the Housing Market

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**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rent-vs-buy-myths-that-ruined-the-housing-market/45333 "2008-03-20T08:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rent-vs-buy-myths-that-ruined-the-housing-market/45333/5 "2008-03-20T09:02:41Z")

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Also it is not these myths that ruined our housing market. Its that fact that the people who bought the houses spent more then they could afford. Plain and simple people took on too much debt all over the place because they are stupid. It was not thay were duped by some myth lol.

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