Buying A House Vs. Renting An Apartment: The Real Math + Calculator
We ran the real numbers on buying vs. renting the same house at a 7.40% mortgage rate. Renting won by $78,000. Run your own numbers in our calculator.

The OCC fined Bank of America $750 million for anti-money laundering failures, its largest penalty ever, as part of a $1.2 billion Treasury penalty action.

We ran the real numbers on buying vs. renting the same house at a 7.40% mortgage rate. Renting won by $78,000. Run your own numbers in our calculator.

Top colleges are requiring SAT and ACT scores again for 2027. See which schools changed their policies and what students should do now.

The University of Arizona plans to freeze tuition, fees, housing and meal plans for 2027-28. See the proposed rates for resident and nonresident students.

Brookings finds most of 871 free tuition colleges relabel aid students already got, with real savings limited to families just below income cutoffs.

UC’s Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan covers $15,588 in tuition and fees for California families earning under $100,000. Here’s who qualifies.

The University of Oregon is cutting $65 million and closed Barnhart Hall for 2026-27 after out-of-state freshman enrollment fell short.

Texas public schools lost 76,000 students in 2025-26, the largest non-pandemic drop in decades, as birth rates fall and school choice grows.

Denied student loans? Learn your options for paying for college when federal, PLUS, and private loans aren’t available.

California is splitting its top K-12 job in two. Here’s what the state superintendent will and won’t do after January 2027, what the new governor-appointed education commissioner controls, and where accountability lands for families.

Cleveland State University will cover tuition for Ohio students with a 3.0 GPA and family income of $125,000 or less starting fall 2027.

A parent asks why FAFSA assumes she’ll pay for college. The answer traces to 1950s need analysis and a 1986 law that drew the line at 24.
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