Rent or Buy: Go With Your Gut

Publish Date: 12-28-2007 09:00 PM -0800

Q I am a 48-year-old divorced woman. I have been renting for the past 10 years. My friends tell me that renting is throwing your money away, but if I buy, my monthly housing costs will probably double. I wonder if, at my age, I would not be better off putting the difference into a retirement...