I pay less than 3% on my boat loan. I had the liquid assets to buy it outright with no loan, but I chose to take the loan because I am earning more on my money than 3%. So whereas I have a 60K debt on the boat, I am actually ending each year with a positive return.
If things change, I evaluate and I make changes.
Only those that rent have no idea what I am talking about.
And they are the ones who are bent out of shape over 400 million of debt on billions of dollars of RE value.
exactly, I owe 25k on my boat, 150k on both houses. I could use my savings and pay them off, but I would lose out on years of investment money for when I retire. My taxes for the property are actually more costly than the debt. I therefore pay taxes to avoid jail and pay monthly on my property.
When we bought our first house, we were faced with 1000 a month rent OR 1200 a month mortgage payment. We would have also had a debt for the 80% of the house we borrowed.
4 years later, we sold the house, bought a larger one, paid off the existing mortgage and took out a new one....and we still walked away with cash in our pockets....not to mention the interest and RE tax write off we got for those 4 years....AND....in essence.....living with no rent.
It was a no brainer.
Now, we own a house valued at 6 times our first house....and never felt we were in debt. Why? Because we weren't. We were using our credit worthiness.
Exactly what Trump does.