Home values up until very recently would net 4-5% a year in value when adjusted for things like maintenance, lower mortgage rates vs rent, inflation, and other considerations.
You can buy a moderate sized home to raise a family and grow into while being nearly certain that you’re going to have moderate gains while maintaining a fixed cost over 30 years. If you move you can be nearly certain in most situations to be able to sell or rent. You can invest in improving the property knowing you’ll make back 50% of those costs later.
Get old age don’t need a big house anymore? Sell it and add that 75% of mortgage money you paid directly back into your retirement income.
There are very very few investments as historically safe and as useful as the mortgage in the USA.
I didn’t give any fucks about what the neighborhood looks like, other than safe.
I do care about property value though.
why?
Because whether you like it or not, it’s tied to retirement and wealth.
How? Are americans so poor that they have to sell their home for retirement?
Home values up until very recently would net 4-5% a year in value when adjusted for things like maintenance, lower mortgage rates vs rent, inflation, and other considerations.
You can buy a moderate sized home to raise a family and grow into while being nearly certain that you’re going to have moderate gains while maintaining a fixed cost over 30 years. If you move you can be nearly certain in most situations to be able to sell or rent. You can invest in improving the property knowing you’ll make back 50% of those costs later.
Get old age don’t need a big house anymore? Sell it and add that 75% of mortgage money you paid directly back into your retirement income.
There are very very few investments as historically safe and as useful as the mortgage in the USA.