It is the question a lot of people quietly run in their heads: keep paying rent on an apartment, or buy something small of your own. One homeowner we toured, Christy, put the frustration bluntly. She did not want to "make a lot of money to live in a crappy apartment somewhere and pay all this rent for nothing." So how do the two actually compare, on cost and on daily life? Here is the honest version, using real numbers from homeowners we have filmed. The Upfront Cost This is