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One thing this seems to ignore -- a mortgage gives you _leverage_ for an investment. Is any bank going to loan you hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in
by asherlc 1y ago
One thing this seems to ignore -- a mortgage gives you _leverage_ for an investment. Is any bank going to loan you hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in the S&P?
- AlexandrB 1y agoUsually these kinds of calculations take that into account. E.g. the up front investment in the stock market == the downpayment on the house. But remember that you're paying for that leverage with interest, which further eats into your gains on the house.
- weepinbell 1y agoThe NYTimes/NerdWallet calculators implicitly account for that in their logic - they track money you gain/lose from down payment/mortgage/interest/taxes, then selling the house at the end. On the renting side, they only assume investing the money that isn't going to down payment/monthly mortgage payments, not investing the full value of the house. My blog post here is just giving an argument that 2 of their parameters should be updated, then showing the result of that update.
- asherlc 1y agoi stand corrected!