Louis, I couldn't agree more...treating a house as an
investment...that's how this all started out...plus of course, with
the help of the banks.
Andy
Quoting Louis Hart <[log in to unmask]>:
> Ahne and Syed approach would have been good to follow in buying a
> house over the past few years: one could not have bought, and hence
> avoided the crash in prices and loss of everything.
>
> My limited information indicates that, over the past 100 years, a
> house does not, on average, qualify as an investment. Buying or
> renting, housing is an expense.
>
> Louis Hart
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [TN] A Modern Parable - car topic
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> It's a great method, pay for it first, but really hard to do when buying
> a house. Save up $200k+ while renting at $1k+/month? Not so easy.
> Also hard to do for college, unless if ones parents want to dole out
> that kind of dough.
>
> Shawn Upton, KB1CKT
> Test Engineer
> Allegro MicroSystems, Inc
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