<human>: I have a great living situation now but unfortunately my landlord is getting married and all tenants have to move out before summer. I just turned 22, recently graduated college (less than 1 year ago) and started working 5 months ago as a Software Engineer. I work in a pretty good area that also has fairly low cost of living for being a great and rising tech center on the east coast.

Looking at prices to rent and sublease over the past month the average cost of a place seems to be around 525 + your share of utilities which is usually around 100. It has been suggested to me to begin looking at possibly purchasing a townhome or condo instead of renting. After about a month of looking at townhouses and condo's I have also come up with an average price of about 10 places I have liked, coming out to about 135k, most of which are 2br and some are 3br. I would intend to rent out any rooms to other young professionals for hopefully 450ish + utilities. At the time of purchase I would only be able to put down ~5-8% (with the help of a 'gift' from my parents). I currently have 3 months worth of emergency fund saved up which is where almost all of my savings have been going in to so since I started working.

Using realistic values from similar properties the mortgage + PMI + Insurance + taxes are about $900/month for a 135k property in my area with 5% down, 4% at 30 years.

The dilemma I am running in to is that I think I will only be in the area for about 5 years. This means waiting to purchase a house for a higher % down makes it less and less worth it. I am really asking for peoples thoughts as the opinions I get from my parents are very strongly one sided, and I am curious what others think on the matter.

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<bot>: Here for 5 years. 135k home 5% down, rent out 1 or 2 rooms OR rent for 575+utilities.