Field Marshall Bradley
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You also own the sovereign rights to that property

You know good and dam well banks aint gonna respect that... .You just think you can get away on a 6 figure debt with them folks just like that huh? Nah man....
You also own the sovereign rights to that property

You know good and dam well banks aint gonna respect that... .You just think you can get away on a 6 figure debt with them folks just like that huh? Nah man....

You're telling an Econ major, trust me, I've had a fairly deep knowledge about the US and foreign housing markets since I was like 15.
There is a growing housing market in Cleveland, and I described the places its growing.
The same could be said for purchasing homes in the growing suburbs surrounding LA, and right outside of NYC.
I'm not talking about controlling the growth so much as I'm talking about investing in something that has a high chance of continuing to grow in value.
If you have a stable job and can afford it, buying a house is a smart idea. People in this thread are talking about "it can lose value" etc etc. With any investment there is always risk. If you do research and make smart decisions you can minimize risk. I bought my first house at the age of 27. I've had it for 4 years and I now have approx $30K in equity. I plan to pay my house off in another 8 years or so (bought it for $95K) and then rent it out for supplemental income. If I had chose to rent a place, I would have payed a monthly rent higher than my current mortgage and would not have any equity. Again, everybody situation is different. But if you have a career and enough money to do so, then buying is the smarter option.
Actually you own whatever equity you've built in the property. You also own the sovereign rights to that property, despite having a bank lien.
I'm not sure how tax breaks would work in anyone's favor if they're going through foreclosure...In fact I have no idea what this comment means at all.
 Nobody can predict if and/or how much your home will appreciate in value. hell that shyt could even LOSE value. Again, you would be singing a different tune had you bought a house right at the top of the bubble before the market crash. Bbbbbbbut the value and appreciation will go back up. Yea tell that to the thousands of folks still hundreds of thousands underwater on their mortgage almost 10 years later. If any of this equity you keep talking about is less than 7 years old, all that shyt is eaten up in maintenance costs, taxes, or the extra costs you'd now have to put towards buying another house. You not coming up on no major equity until you've been in that house for at least 10-15+ years if you're lucky. I can see math is not your thing.I'm good breh. I'd have no skin in the game. I'd go rent another place. move anywhere I want at the drop of hat. brazil, miami, colombia, anywhere! No worry of losing my down payment or all the money I spent on maintenance or the little equity I built now being eaten from the costs of buying a new place. all the while the equity in my stock portfolio or value of my business is just fine.Regardless,
Go ahead and miss ONE month of that rent you owe me... see I won't have you evicted. In Washington State, breh, you got two weeks to GTOH, or the sherrifs are kicking you out. Play with it.![]()
Nobody can predict if and/or how much your home will appreciate in value. hell that shyt could even LOSE value. Again, you would be singing a different tune had you bought a house right at the top of the bubble before the market crash. Bbbbbbbut the value and appreciation will go back up. Yea tell that to the thousands of folks still hundreds of thousands underwater on their mortgage almost 10 years later.
If any of this equity you keep talking about is less than 7 years old, all that shyt is eaten up in maintenance costs, taxes, or the extra costs you'd now have to put towards buying another house. You not coming up on no major equity until you've been in that house for at least 10-15+ years if you're lucky. I can see math is not your thing.
  I'm not sure breh, after all math clearly isn't my thing.Nobody can predict if and/or how much your home will appreciate in value. hell that shyt could even LOSE value. Again, you would be singing a different tune had you bought a house right at the top of the bubble before the market crash. Bbbbbbbut the value and appreciation will go back up. Yea tell that to the thousands of folks still hundreds of thousands underwater on their mortgage almost 10 years later. If any of this equity you keep talking about is less than 7 years old, all that shyt is eaten up in maintenance costs, taxes, or the extra costs you'd now have to put towards buying another house. You not coming up on no major equity until you've been in that house for at least 10-15+ years if you're lucky. I can see math is not your thing.
I'm good breh. I'd have no skin in the game. I'd go rent another place. move anywhere I want at the drop of hat. brazil, miami, colombia, anywhere! No worry of losing my down payment or all the money I spent on maintenance or the little equity I built now being eaten from the costs of buying a new place. all the while the equity in my stock portfolio or value of my business is just fine.
you brehs keep thinking I'm against real estate, I'm just telling cats to be smart about it. You can easily come out on the negative if you don't seriously crunch the numbers or know what you're doing. It's ONE path to wealth, not the end all be all.

Nobody can predict if and/or how much your home will appreciate in value. hell that shyt could even LOSE value. Again, you would be singing a different tune had you bought a house right at the top of the bubble before the market crash. Bbbbbbbut the value and appreciation will go back up. Yea tell that to the thousands of folks still hundreds of thousands underwater on their mortgage almost 10 years later. If any of this equity you keep talking about is less than 7 years old, all that shyt is eaten up in maintenance costs, taxes, or the extra costs you'd now have to put towards buying another house. You not coming up on no major equity until you've been in that house for at least 10-15+ years if you're lucky. I can see math is not your thing.
I'm good breh. I'd have no skin in the game. I'd go rent another place. move anywhere I want at the drop of hat. brazil, miami, colombia, anywhere! No worry of losing my down payment or all the money I spent on maintenance or the little equity I built now being eaten from the costs of buying a new place. all the while the equity in my stock portfolio or value of my business is just fine.
you brehs keep thinking I'm against real estate, I'm just telling cats to be smart about it. You can easily come out on the negative if you don't seriously crunch the numbers or know what you're doing. It's ONE path to wealth, not the end all be all.

I did buy a house at the top of the bubble before the crash; January 2005. Rented it out when the value tanked, then renovated and sold it for a profit last year. What else you got?
The house I'm living in now I bought in August 2014 for 325k. As of yesterday, I have received 3 offers up to $414k. Maybe I should wait another 8-13 years for that "major" equity you're talking about?I'm not sure breh, after all math clearly isn't my thing.
you do realize that is the exception and not the norm right? a majority of the housing markets in the country are still in recovery mode. you won as your location is probably part of the exception. The general rule has always been you typically won't see any substantial equity for at least the first 7 years. but it can obviously be less depending on how much you put for a down payment, how healthy your market is, are you making extra payments to knock down principal, etc. you're in good shape, but overall you're still bad at math because you seem to think the only way to come up on 40k from investing is through making mortgage payments for 30 years. 
There are other ways apart from real estate. at the end of the day, invest your moneybut overall you're still bad at math because you seem to think the only way to come up on 40k from investing is through making mortgage payments for 30 years.There are other ways apart from real estate. at the end of the day, invest your money
Imagine if we all did that. But you gonna have to buy a shyt home and basically be a slumlord unless you know how to do repairs yourself. You not gonna see the money you think you are for a while.My mentality is to own.
...Have people rent from me.
Imagine if we all did that.![]()
Imagine if we all did that. But you gonna have to buy a shyt home and basically be a slumlord unless you know how to do repairs yourself. You not gonna see the money you think you are for a while.


So you're saying you don't know any people who don't live in shyt homes?
Also why are people in here acting like homeowners are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year in repairs?
If you're that afraid of something breaking, get a fukking home warranty, this isn't brain surgery.
cause people don't know wtf they're talking about lol
