five standard windows run about $250 x 5, picture window $400. Installation $50 per window, $200 for picture. total $1800

We have the opposite problem. We're considering selling our house rent-to-own because it might be the only way we can sell it in this market.

From my point of view, my main concern if I were selling to you would be that you might change your mind and decide not to buy it after all, after we already moved to a distant state. Then we would have to travel back and start over.

To prevent that kind of setback, we might insist on a lot of money up front. But you don't have it. So it seems like a big problem from both your point of view and mine.

On the other hand, what else can we do?

To the person who mentioned a lawyer writing the agreement, aren't there already any standard agreements written by a lawyer and sold as forms to fill out? Or does everyone who does a rent-to-own have to have a lawyer write the contract for that specific deal and not use pre-written contracts?

The deficit is money owed by the government to several different places. Examples are, U.S. citizens, U.S. companies, Japan, China, other goverment agencies that didn't use precious budgets… Interest is paid on this balance every year. As the national debt grows so too does the interest paid. Because the government also makes the money, they could in theory simply print more money and give it to their creditors. If they did that, the U.S dollar would become weaker compared to other countries money. Cutting a pie into more slices without making the pie any bigger will mean each slice of pie is smaller. Same principle applies to monetary policy.

As the government makes more money, inflation kicks in. A dollar in 1940 could buy a lot more than it does today. People that invest in things like banks and the stock market expect to beat inflation and even get more. For instance inflation runs about 3 percent per year on average. So on any investment you need to get more than 3 percent return or you will loose purchasing power.

To pull it all together. Government gets to a point that interst owed on national debt is higher than GDP. This means that we can not make more in a year than we owe. (Not likely to happen but proves a point) The only way the government can pay its debt is by doubling the amount of money in circulation. This would cause every dollar to loose 50 % purchasing power. The only way you could convince me to save my money rather than spend it would be by offering more than 50 % rate of return. If a bank is offering lets say 55 % interest rates then they too have to make more return on their investment. The people they loan the money to (home owners through morgages) would have to pay more than 55 % on there home loan. People would stop borrowing money at such a high rate, demand for houses would fall. The supply of houses would stay about the same. Decrease demand holding supply the same would lower the price of homes. Thus create a market crash

The deficit is money owed by the government to several different places. Examples are, U.S. citizens, U.S. companies, Japan, China, other goverment agencies that didn't use precious budgets… Interest is paid on this balance every year. As the national debt grows so too does the interest paid. Because the government also makes the money, they could in theory simply print more money and give it to their creditors. If they did that, the U.S dollar would become weaker compared to other countries money. Cutting a pie into more slices without making the pie any bigger will mean each slice of pie is smaller. Same principle applies to monetary policy.

As the government makes more money, inflation kicks in. A dollar in 1940 could buy a lot more than it does today. People that invest in things like banks and the stock market expect to beat inflation and even get more. For instance inflation runs about 3 percent per year on average. So on any investment you need to get more than 3 percent return or you will loose purchasing power.

To pull it all together. Government gets to a point that interst owed on national debt is higher than GDP. This means that we can not make more in a year than we owe. (Not likely to happen but proves a point) The only way the government can pay its debt is by doubling the amount of money in circulation. This would cause every dollar to loose 50 % purchasing power. The only way you could convince me to save my money rather than spend it would be by offering more than 50 % rate of return. If a bank is offering lets say 55 % interest rates then they too have to make more return on their investment. The people they loan the money to (home owners through morgages) would have to pay more than 55 % on there home loan. People would stop borrowing money at such a high rate, demand for houses would fall. The supply of houses would stay about the same. Decrease demand holding supply the same would lower the price of homes. Thus create a market crash