<prompt> Human: My work requires me to travel. Usually my wife and two children live in a camper with me while on the road. I have just been assigned to a two year job and am thinking about buying a house. If I were to buy the house, I would sell the camper, I owe about 24K on it. The current lot rent is 400 and the Camper payment is 233. The house I am looking at is 87K but it is only four minutes from my work. I am currently having to drive around 30 minutes each way. At the end of this job, I would attempt to sell the house and hopefully would get my money back. I have around 150K worth of debt that we are trying to clean up and make a little over 100K a year. I have a little over 7K in saving and a little over 2K in checking. Also, I am tired of living in a camper with two children, it would be nice to have some sense of normalcy. Thoughts?  <response>: Generally it takes 5-7 years for owning to be worth it. Research into renting vs buying to see if you come out ahead. I doubt it unless you live in a weird market. 