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Rent or Buy?  

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1. What do I have to take care of if I rent an apartment?
2. How can I find a new apartment?
3. When should we stop renting and buy a house?
4. What kind of house do we want to buy?
5. Where do we want to buy?
Answers:
1. The landlord has some responsibilities and the tenant has other responsibilities. Click on this apartment picture to find out who has to do what.
 
2. This is an apartment hunters' web site for ESL students.
 
3. These advantages and disadvantages of buying a house come from ESOL students at SCALE in Somerville, MA and other students at the Salem Harbor CDC Program.
 
Here's some more advice for you if you are thinking about buying a house. You can also listen to a realtor talk about "equity" and about buying instead of renting.
 
4. See the kind of house ESOL students want in Somerville, MA.
 
5. See what kind of location is best: city or suburbs. These are some places that feel like home to ESOL students.
 

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