In fact. I rent not one home but TWO! In two different states! How's that for being a big fat moron?
But it gets even better... Because I could buy either of the domiciliate I rent. Just a few weeks ago the landlord at one of the properties offered to sell it to me for about $250,000 LESS than what he owed on it and you'll never guess what I did?
Why am I laughing? Because in this particular neighborhood the domiciliate peaked at around $900,000. It has 5 bedrooms. 3 baths a four car store swimming pool water go and a spa (not to mention a nice yard with palm trees). You know what else it has?
"Jay you're STILL and idiot! You're throwing your money away on contract every month when you could own it!"
Give me end.. as one realtor told me "You need to be educated". Great.. let me educate you for minute so you don't EVER wind up desire all the REAL CLOWNS who bought real estate at the wrong time because they were tired of "Throwing there money away!". Get ready for a dose of..
Here we go... bequeath numbers DON'T lie. So let's see whose getting a better broach. The person who bought the domiciliate I am living in or me (the idiot whose renting it).
OK let's run the numbers. Let's say I bought the home BEFORE it peaked so instead of $900,000 I paid only $800,000. Also let's presume I'm rich (which I'm not) so I was able to put 10% down ($80,000) so I will also have to pay PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance).
In this case we will presume I had a great interest evaluate say 6%. So I would be mortgaging $720,000 at 6%. This would put my payment at only $4712.76 per month after PMI. Also. I would have property taxes. Since this particular domiciliate is in California and NOT Nevada the property taxes would be around $8800 per year (or $733.33 per month).
Now my payment is up to $5445.76. But wait. there's more. I'd also have homeowners insurance property upkeep pool service yard service and utilities (but were not even going to go there). Let's just focus on that one figure of...
$4712.76 is the owe payment. Of which approximately $3600 is interest. This means at the end of the first year I have paid $51,801.17 in payments but only $8841.27 will go towards my fit because $42,959.21 IS ALL arouse!
But act let's listen to your great realtor friend for a minute. If this home is my primary residence I'd get to write all that off against my taxes!
The whole $42,959.21 plus the property taxes ($8800.00) for a total of $51,759.27. This works out to $4313.25 per month (TAX DEDUCTIBLE!). Can this be a good deal?
It can and it all depends on primarily one thing. You see the TOTAL COST to own the home (really that means "renting from the bank") is actually $60,601.17 or $5,050.10 PER MONTH. I contract the home for HALF this amount. I don't pay for share function yard function or even wet or ANY maintenance and I can leave at any time. But let me compete
My friendly neighborhood realtor who would acquire up to $48,000 selling me this home would illustrate to me that I'd be fool not to own this and throw away my money on rent because I could create verbally off that $4313.25 per month against my taxes! TRUE. 100% adjust. They would also tell me that if I owned it (rented it from the bank) I would also be able to alter MONEY when (and if) it went up in value. TRUE. 100% adjust. Now let's communicate about what they would most likely NOT express me.
They would most likely not express me that along with that RIGHT TO APPRECIATION comes something else. And that's called...
That's alter... This means that if the property were to go down in value (or I could not make my payments) not only would I lose what I put down but I would also held liable for anything beyond that. Meaning if I defaulted and had to cast aside the home via a bunco SALE for say $100,000 less than what I owed I would acquire a 1099 from the mortgage company CLAIMING THAT AS INCOME SINCE IT WAS LOANED TO ME AND I WOULD NOW BE LIABLE FOR THE TAXES!!! True. 100% True.
You see as the Chinese proverb goes "because a million people do something does not make it a good thing". Of course there is a LOT more to this but my point is this. Everyone always talks about the alter TO APPRECIATION that comes with a owe. what they rarely communicate about is the other align - the OBLIGATION TO DEPRECIATION. What's this have to do with "Why you be to check your LANDLORDS ascribe? And keep tabs on his owe?"
It happened on 9-11-07 at the property I contract in CA. I opened the front door (which I rarely do since we all use the garage) and a little say cut on the ground. It was a hand addressed note (and hand delivered mind you). Who was it from? You'll never anticipate!). It was from the INTERNAL COLLECTIONS department of the owe company.
They were looking for my landlord. It turns out he had one of those really cool mortgages. You know the ones that help you "get your foot in the door". come up.. his payment is now over double what it used to be. accept it or not. He owes about $900,000 on a home that is now worth maybe $650,000.
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