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By renting all the work on the outside (painting, roof repairs etc.) has to be done by your landlord, and some landlords also do or pay for the inside (plumbing, painting etc).
But your rent will rise with the year and you will have to keep paying even if you are living there for 50 years or more.
By buying the house is yours, and you'll have to pay for the mortgage, but the more you pay the less it becomes.
On the other side all the work on the house has to be done by you, so you pay for it. But you can also completely make the house to what you like it to be. Only you have to take care your neighbours won't complain. (If the whole street has white houses and you decide to paint it pink, you might have a problem).
Also you pay more taxes, and once you have payed off your mortgage your taxes will rise skyhigh.
And if you have no relatives to give the house to when you become to old and ill to stay in your own house, it might be even the healthcare claims your house to pay for the bills.
And when you die and you have no relatives anyone can claim it if you don't put it in your last will. And even if you give it to your children the tax will come around and will ask a lot of money from your relatives/inheritants.
So, I rent my house, being alone I don't see profit in buying a house.
In the netherlands it's even so that if I would have bought a house and I loose my job the government says: You have money, so you don't get an unemployedment benefit, or you first have to sell your house.
Only people who have less than 6500 euro's get an unemployedment benefit.