• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    ~2004. My highschool civics teacher told the class that real estate was always a good investment because it only went up. I didn’t really trust him at the time though.

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      I mean, if you had money at the time and bought a house in one of the larger cities or their suburbs, you would probably be loaded by now, even though you would regret it for about 5 years after the crash

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        You have to be loaded to be loaded? Got it.

        This “teacher” also would complain about wellfare queens who had children just to claim more benefits, that the best thing that could happen to a country is to be invaded by the US because they’ll rebuild afterwards and that every Union but teacher’s Unions were obsolete today, among other things.

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      he was a terrible teacher.

      the wealthy have always considered real estate to be a liability that requires constant upkeep. they are money pits.

      this is why they truly own nothing but physical assets(gold, paintings,etc) and leverage any liquidity on acquiring assets.

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        The wealthy are buying up properties either to rent out or if they’re Chinese, to move their wealth to places their government can’t take it from. They absolutely own propriety, but not with the intent to flip.