Rooofread - Rent or buy? See what changes for your money.

Hi everyone! This is one of the tools we’ve been building at Rooofread, an independent Canadian housing publication. Renting versus buying involves more than comparing rent with a mortgage payment. This calculator lets you explore both paths and see cash, investments and home equity separately, rather than treating them as interchangeable. You can start with your own numbers or try the example. Quick results are open without signup; the more detailed modes require a newsletter subscription. The results depend on your assumptions, and the methodology explains the model’s limits. We’d love to hear where the inputs or results could be clearer, or what you’d want to compare that isn’t there yet.