As this other comment pointed out [0] 40% of homes are mortgage free, but that says nothing about home owners. Anecdotally I know that none of my neighbors are

As this other comment pointed out [0] 40% of homes are mortgage free, but that says nothing about home owners. Anecdotally I know that none of my neighbors are mortgage free. However I also have a few friends that had major cash windfalls things like startup exits or time working in hedge funds, each of them owns 3-5 houses outright as investments. So, with this small sample I can easily see that of the total number of homes owned by friends/neighbors, 40% being mortgage free sounds about right, but far less of my friends/neighbors are mortgage free. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612670