So the couple gave up their little one-bedroom rental in Long Island City, Queens, and moved to Seattle. “To us, it was cheap to buy a $550,000 house,” said Mr. Diaz, 39, who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. “We didn’t want to make a rushed decision to buy something,” Ms. Jeavons, 36, said. “I didn’t want an overwhelming amount of space where the heating and cooling costs were excessive,” Ms. Jeavons said. “We recognized that it made financial sense to find something with a rental to offset the mortgage and expand the inventory we could look at,” Ms. Jeavons said.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2020 09:00 UTC