<prompt> Human: My husband and I currently rent an apartment in Denver and recently found out we will be relocating to Seattle for his post-doc which will be for four years. It didnt make sense for us to buy a house right now as we didnt know where he would end up. Our long term goal is to come back to Denver and buy a house and we want to be close to family as well so our goal is to save as much as possible. I assumed we would be renting in Seattle as well for the four years, but my husband recently suggested we should look into buying a house and then selling it after. What are proscons of doing this? Im really new to all of this so I can really use help from the Reddit community!  <response>: it could be great, i could be awful you are on the hook for repairs and upkeepsystem failuresand at the mercy of the market 