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Byline: Dennis P. Carmody
Mar. 9--For Melissa Kiss, it's a simple matter of math.
"I'm paying $1,310 a month for rent," said the 28-year-old school teacher who is single and lives with her mother above the pet store that her mother co-owns in Brick. "I'm looking at that number and thinking, 'That's a mortgage payment.'"
Like millions before her, Kiss has realized there's not much financial point to throwing her money away on rent each month, when instead she could be paying off a mortgage and building up equity in a home of her own. So the elementary school teacher is now looking for a house to buy in the Brick area.
She is not alone. According to the National Association of Realtors' annual survey of buyers and…