There's already a bunch of existing content on the advantages of rent-to-own (pay particular attention to the option fee, refundable if/when they actually execute on the purchase), and I'm generally not a huge fan of it, but it seems to make sense in this particular case specifically because it's your home in particular they want, and they have 20% down.I did not pick 3 years out of the blue.

California sends more water back to the Pacific Ocean each year than the City of Phoenix uses in total.

(You didn’t say if they recovered the money)So having watched plenty of thief movies like oceans 11-75 and all the ones involving Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnin, I say GO FOR IT!!

Blue collar engineers.

What I do buy is in solid, blue collar cities, landlord friendly (close enough), with crazy good price/rent ratios.

If politics were allowed on here unfettered, I fear every thread would devolve into childish blue team vs. red team idiocy. 

Thus, for example, we rent a 5th fl, ocean-view, 2BR condo here in Mazatlan for $1,200 mo.5.

Right now there is enough gold sitting on the deep ocean floor to change the gold price.

It is not just blue collar jobs.

You don't really notice it when you're driving around down in the Valley but if you get up in elevation a bit and look down at it... we really don't get many blue sky days anymore.