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Homeownership in the United States has become a 'damned if you do and damned if you don't' situation, especially for the generation that has been kept off the property ladder the longest: millennials.

Wondering what it would be like to buy a home in the spot you’re vacationing in is something many of us do. But it isn’t without caveats.