If you're buying a house cash for half price, does it matter if the cash you no longer have is half value in 5 years?
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Hah.
You have to wait for the interest rates to get that high and then for real estate to collapse. In the meantime your $250,000 in savings loses $37,000 in value every year.
People say real estate is a good investment, I disagree. If the banks don't loan money, not many people can pay cash for a mcmansion.
It's mainly a "good investment" because the United States government has a stated policy that land prices should go up uniformly forever and ever and the attendant tax advantages. Obviously, the real part of that can only work to the extent that the dollar also inflates. The rest is unsustainable. While it is true that land is a scarce commodity, and no more is being made, it can only go up long term as much as people's ability to pay for it increases. And IIRC real US wages peaked in the 1970s. OTOH, investments where your money is used to actually DO something -- crypto mining, real mining, manufacturing, even services to an extent -- have no fundamental limit on growth. If you invest in the company that makes the eyeballs for the robots that are going to replace us all, your money could grow as fast as robots improve.
It’s a better investment than most things.
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