10. You’re ready to stop paying your landlord’s mortgage payment, and start building wealth of your own. Money paid for rent is money that you’ll never see again, but mortgage payments let you build equity ownership interest in your home.

9. When the visitor that checks you the most, always comes round about the same day, same time, every month and always leave you feeling broke.

8. You want a vested interest in your community.

7. It’s mid-August and you can no longer tolerate waiting for your landlord to send someone to fix your air conditioner.

6. You are working at a job where you won’t leave the country every other year.

5. You want to provide your family with a sense of stability and plant roots.

4. There are more than twice as many people as bedrooms in your current residence.

3. You want to paint the walls of your bedroom any color you please.

2. You are tired of wa for the laundromat.

1. When you say you are “going home,” you want to really mean it!