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What are people doing to take advantage of record low interest rates?
View Poll Results: What are you doing to take advantage of once-in-a-generation lending rate lows?
Voters: 7.| Going balls deep in the real estate market | 3 | 42% | |
| Refinancing and paying down my debts | 2 | 28% | |
| Other (specify in comments) | 2 | 28% | |
| Loading up my share portfolio | 0 | 0% |
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12-27-2020, 02:27 PM
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- r32gojirra
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What are people doing to take advantage of record low interest rates?
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For me it’s loading up on real estate investments that I can hold with positive cashflow at 2.5% retail lending rate
Others may be using leverage to increase their stock portfolio (in Aus our compulsory superannuation gives me enough exposure to the market)
Any other cool ideas?
For me it’s loading up on real estate investments that I can hold with positive cashflow at 2.5% retail lending rate
Others may be using leverage to increase their stock portfolio (in Aus our compulsory superannuation gives me enough exposure to the market)
Any other cool ideas?
12-27-2020, 02:38 PM
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I refinanced my house
At zero cost to me, except for a couple hours of my time, I lowered my monthly housing expense by 24%
Want to buy another property and rent it out this coming year, but might have to wait 2-3 more years, we’ll see
Just keeping an eye out for good opportunities
At zero cost to me, except for a couple hours of my time, I lowered my monthly housing expense by 24%
Want to buy another property and rent it out this coming year, but might have to wait 2-3 more years, we’ll see
Just keeping an eye out for good opportunities
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12-27-2020, 02:54 PM
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I applied for auto loan refinance because I have about 30k left on mine but at that amount the most I could have saved was about $1000 spread over 3.5 years. Just fukking lmao @ going through the trouble of all that chit to save $350/year that is poverty behavior so I didn't do it out of self respect.
Just lmao @ buying real estate with the potential downturn looming. If your main income is even potentially at risk and you take on that much debt plus sink capital into down payments I got some bad news.
Just lmao @ buying real estate with the potential downturn looming. If your main income is even potentially at risk and you take on that much debt plus sink capital into down payments I got some bad news.
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12-27-2020, 02:58 PM
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12-27-2020, 03:01 PM
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I have been putting more into AAPL, got in around 114. My average return is 16% so far. Thinking about a stop loss trigger just in case. You guys have any ideas?
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12-27-2020, 03:01 PM
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- r32gojirra
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Originally Posted By TugOfPeace⏩
Not really, between my wage income, fee income and business profits as well as defined benefit scheme, superannuation etc I could get sacked tomorrow and it would be years before it affected my income.Do you not have any worry about the impending potential economic crash?
I've been holding cash but am trying to diversify into precious metals, not too sure about real estate.
I've been holding cash but am trying to diversify into precious metals, not too sure about real estate.
I never hold cash because I’ve seen what happens when currency is suddenly devalued and I feel it can happen at any time.
Originally Posted By AnotherAlt4⏩
Buying land (with old houses) subdividing and developing. For a developer, interest holding costs are the main risk so for me this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunityWhere are you finding cashflowing real estate?
Obviously, locking the interest rate in until approvals/construction/subdivision is complete
Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Lol wutPublic poll, no thnxs Jeff.

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12-27-2020, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted By TugOfPeace⏩
You could do that I'm not into that personally I'd spend the capital on expanding my business/buying out competition who couldn't weather the storm of covid shutdowns, or starting a second business that is based on high volume small scale purchases like buying a local cafe in a high income residential neighborhood (since all the upper middle class folks will be working from home moving forward) and having someone else run it for me.So in lieu of real estate, you'd suggest holding onto precious metals?
Obviously I care more about having businesses than maximizing gains but that's because for me money is not my primary motivation it's serving people things they want and appreciate. I've found if you do that well the money will come and it's a pretty low stress fun lifestyle compared to looking at life as a dollar matrix.
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12-27-2020, 03:06 PM
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12-27-2020, 03:11 PM
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If u are able to get unsecured loans at 2.5% i would just take advantage and follow with credit arbitrage and get rental properties across latin america
Rates here at Atleast 12% which makes leveraged purchases of real estate unsustainable but if u were able to get cheap money, u could get top property on a discount from all the people going broke right now
Rates here at Atleast 12% which makes leveraged purchases of real estate unsustainable but if u were able to get cheap money, u could get top property on a discount from all the people going broke right now
12-27-2020, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted By TugOfPeace⏩
I have a couple hundred k on hand but in the context of a capital-intensive property development business that’s nothingThis is interesting, so you don't hold any cash? In the scenario that currency is devalued, what happens to your financial situation?
I'm trying to figure out what to do personally. I have only cash/retirement cash, don't know whether to buy gold and buy a house, or what..
I'm trying to figure out what to do personally. I have only cash/retirement cash, don't know whether to buy gold and buy a house, or what..
I keeps all cash in offset accounts so effectively earning 2.5%
I expect that once the recovery is in full swing there will be significant widespread price inflation which will erode the value of debts and I plan to enter the recovery holding a lot of real estate to sell
Lead time to get a property to market is bare minimum 2 years if everything goes exactly right so will use the ridiculously low interest rates to lower my operating costs
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