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Buy to Let beats stocks

Started by Riversider
over 13 years ago
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Member since: Apr 2009
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-13/housing-as-an-investment-yes-that-idea-is-back thanks to leverage, a person who buys a house and rents it out will come out ahead of someone who invests the same amount of money in the stock market—especially at the point when the incoming rent covers maintenance outlays and helps pay off the mortgage. Going by historical data, by the time the owner retires, the house should be worth more than what equities would have returned. Plus, he says, “You’d already own your cash-flowing fixed income assets to retire on.”
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