[SlalomStallone]

Mostly the interest and upkeep that are keeping me away from purchasing.

If I bought a 200k house, in 5 years I would have paid 43k in interest and still owe 180k on the mortgage (according to some amortization table I found), and probably many thousand more fixing stuff that breaks.

After 30 years I will have paid $164,813 in interest, so even if the house doubles in value it doesn't seem like a great investment.

Am I missing something? Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly but it doesn't seem like that great of a deal.