Before we take a deep dive into the benefits of owning your home versus renting someone else’s, I’d like to invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy a little bedtime story about my friend named Max. (Okay, his real name isn’t actually Max but his story is very real). I was introduced to Max right after the tornado of 2020 hit Nashville, TN (and I’m not referring to the pandemic, although that was another sort of tornado that hit just one week after the real one swept through the better part of downtown Music City).