Scraping together every bit of credit you can find to invest in a house or flat to let, is not the wisest investment decision to make right now, warns property economist Erwin Rode, CEO of Rode & Associates property valuers and economists. Instead, he advises, the best bargain out there in the current residential property market, is to rent a place in which to live, rather than buy. The proviso is that the tenant must religiously invest the difference between his rent and what his instalment would have been if he had bought.