![]() ![]() Lorenz has had issues with the maintenance and upkeep of the property her family rents. READ MORE: Rent or buy? How stagnating home prices and high rents affect that equation But she never expected that the experience itself would be so much worse than renting in Germany. So she wasn’t entirely unaware of Canadians’ cultural prejudice against renting. Lorenz, who married a Canadian, has a degree in architecture and wrote her dissertation on Toronto’s urban sprawl. “Even the way people talk about it here - saying ‘oh, are you just renting?’ - implies so much,” she said. Others, though, were puzzled by Lorenz’s choice. Renting is the norm in her native Germany, where the homeownership rate is less than 50 per cent. When Juliane Lorenz and her husband started renting a bungalow in Toronto, after their first child was born, she did not think much of it. ![]()
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