Comment The basement... (Score 1) 940
This is why I never rented - I didn't want to be paying someone else's mortgage, and getting stuck in this rental loop.
I stayed at home longer, putting up with living longer with my parents, in order to get the down-payment and buy my own place. It was worth a few short years.
So just move back home (assuming it's possible), and then move out again the right way in a few years.