Check my logic for me. If you're living in a house and have a motgage, making payments on a loan, you're not a "home-owner" yet. You might wish to be, you're trying to be and even hope to be someday.....but not quite yet....Right?
The DUmmie attitude seems to be, if you owe for it, it's yours, period. Maybe I've been wrong all my life but when I owed for something I told folks, "It's mine and the bank's." ...and I thought and treated whatever it was accordingly until it was totally mine.
Am I screwed up or what?