11. Tax time is more painful
If you do your own taxes every year, you already know how complicated our almost-impossible-to-understand tax system is. When dealing with taxes, the last thing you need is to make it more complicated, but that’s exactly what home ownership will do for you. It’s true that owning a home offers tax breaks but don’t forget that those “breaks” are simply the credit that the government allows you to use as a discount on your taxes due to the money you had to pay out because you own a home.