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When Investing In Property With Land Is Preferred ?
If you just started doing property investing, maybe it is not quite obvious as why people preferred to invest in property with land: house, townhouses or duplex rather than apartment, unit or studio apartment. After all a home and land package is significantly more expensive than unit and it is also rather more difficult to get a tenant as the rent also more expensive. Well, it all comes back to the purpose of the investment or what strategy or goal that you want to achieve.
Your Own Home: Is It An Investment or Liability?
We very often here this cliche "Our house is our biggest investment". Unfortunately, that is NOT true for most of the people. Why? Because for them, the house and its mortgage are actually the biggest burden and liability. The house could give you pride and joy, it could give you good shelter and even could give you happiness, but in the investing world, for most of the case it's still the biggest liability you ever had.It could be your "biggest purchase" but whether is it an investment or liability, it's actually depends on you.
Why NOT-Paying-Off Your Mortage is Better For Investing
Explain why we need not to pay off the mortgage, even for your own home, to achieve better result in investing
Why ‘median price’ is used in Property or Real Estate?
We often hear the term "median price" when it comes to property. We know it's a kind of statistical term like mean (average) and mode. But why the property world use 'median price' predominantly compare to the other terms. Or perhaps why don't they use 'average' price instead? Let's get into it....
Property Investing: Negative Gearing or Positive Gearing ?
When people talks about Property Investing, the question whether to find a Positive Gearing Investment or Negative Gearing Investment will come into the surface. In particular: whice one is better: the positive gearing or negative gearing ?Unfortunately, the answer is depending on who you ask. If that person markets or owns a positive gearing investment, he or she will say positive gearing is the best for you. Other people who markets or owns a negative gearing investment will say then the answer is the other way around.So, take a look by yourself - an apple to apple comparison - between Positive Gearing Investment and Negative Gearing Investment, which one suit your condition - complete with the simulator to run your own number !