“There’s no way to predict if housing is going up or down. So you need to get Death, Debt, or Divorce on your side. These are basically the ONLY ways you can guarantee you are getting a better deal than anyone else. If every house in an area is going for $400,000 then you want to make sure you don’t pay more than $200-250,000. That’s called ‘good investing’. Good investing is not about predicting the future, it’s about getting a deal. This is an important concept no matter what you are investing in and it’s the concept everyone forgets. Don’t buy a house unless you are getting a deal, even if you’ve convinced yourself you will living there for 30 years.”
http://jamesaltucher.quora.com/You-Have-To-Use-This-Checklist-When-Buying-A-House
Related posts:
Happy Tax Freedom Day?
Robert Ringer: Handling Change
Charting Insolvency: Social Security and Wages
CIA created 9/11 blowback, American citizens paid
Your Right to Use Encryption
This failure rate will shock you
It’s a Sound-Money Alternative to the Dollar
Will Grigg: The Stalinist in the White House
Cui Bono Fed: Who Benefits from the Federal Reserve?
Seasteading: Striking at the Root of Bad Government
Who Funds the War Party?
Chris Hedges: The Treason of the Intellectuals
Political Savvy of Osama Bin Laden vs. US Foreign Policy Establishment
He Parlayed Coins To Crowns; Mayer Rothschild's street smarts [2004]
An Armed People in Mexico and Their Threat to the State