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Vlad_The_Impaler on scored.co
29 days ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Yes but after about 5 years the rent on a place exceeds the mortgage. That mortgage payment is locked in for 30 years. Your rent goes up every year. Also equity is better than no equity.
29 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
I think it depends on where you live. In a high cost of living city like Toronto, the 5 years rent does not exceed mortgage. Also in Canada mortgages reset every 3-5 years (depending on the term of your mortgage), not 30 like in the USA.
Ah well that all changes the decision making process.
In USA I think getting a primary residential mortgage is a good deal. Also the equity can be tapped for more loans. Many people get rich off constantly getting finance from equity and buying more properties.
Yes, in the US there are still lots of houses for reasonable prices everywhere (even in the outskirts of Jew York City). You want to know what's crazy? In Niagara Falls, Ontario a house is like $1 million dollars. Literally just cross the border to Buffalo, New York (as Warren Buffett once called it, the armpit of America) and the houses are like $250k. This shows you how truly fucked up house prices are here in Canada.
Yes, they do this by restricting supply using zoning, environmentalists, so-called "first nation" Indians blocking development, restrictive building codes, boomers who own houses blocking development, crazy high development fees from the cities, etc etc etc
There's many more factors to consider.
In USA I think getting a primary residential mortgage is a good deal. Also the equity can be tapped for more loans. Many people get rich off constantly getting finance from equity and buying more properties.
Cost of materials?
Why would it cost so much more than usa?
There is lots of wilderness in Canada. I haven't ruled out loving there into far rural wilderness.