She simply dictated the terms in which she was willing to sell to you - i.e. that she expected you to be the party closing on the property if you were the one making the offer to buy the property.

The market dictates our pricing.

Those dictate what we do when residents are late.

It is absurd that Fannie considers transfers of funds within a marriage to be a "gift," but alas I am not the dictator of the universe and cannot change this at present.Solution: Just what @Cara Lonsdale said, have both names on the accounts even if it's understood between the two of you that this one is "mine" and this one is "yours."

it depends" - I think your lifestyle may dictate much of this decision, but fundamentally you probably win more with the renting and deploying the capital into investments that will earn you money in the meantime, you can always buy a home and you can always give some bank a big deposit for the home you plan to live in, but in the meantime if you have the ability to buy some rental or invest in a real estate venture, go for it, let your money work for you while you can.

While the economic climate dictated his profit and it cannot be expected all of the time, there is no profit to be made when renting on accident.  

Regardless of the # it basically comes back to one thing and that is having the ability to dictate when and where and how you are going to run your daily life, not my Employer.  

So I think it is dictated by your ambition, time and financial factors.

I have let fear slow me down, but ultimately it doesn't dictate the decisions I make.

Supply-and-demand would normally dictate that home prices should rise until something stops them.