How many times have you heard that you should buy a house because it is an investment and when renting you have nothing to show for it? And that your monthly mortgage check would build equity for you? Well, this myth is also true in the business world .... Consider the following example of a Florida company that bought an office building $170,000 .... Their mortgage payment was just a little more than their old rent, but they had the pleasure of calling their office their own ....