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  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,393 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    that was just an example......to demonstrate the massive opportunity cost of buying vs renting

    and sorry to !!!! on your BTL fire, but i sold up in 2007...(at the right time) having bought my first place in 1994.
    i had 280,000 in equity
    i put the lot into gold and silver...
    it was a massive, but calculated gamble and it paid off
    - gold has tripled in value
    - silver has almost quadrupled (at one point is was up over 500%)

    how about your BTL investments...how are they looking over the same period?
    down about 20-30% i'd guess

    you mug

    I bought way back in the late 80's ... I was so far ahead of the game that it would make you dizzy.

    Bricks and Mortar are far longer term secure bets than mickey mouse Gold and Silver ..... I just bet that you are one of the mugs who have bought - but not actually seen the Gold or Silver :rotfl:

    MUG ....
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • nope. wrong again. retard

    it's all safely stored and can be visited and checked, and it's gradually being converted into cash on each daily high, as i reduce risk and move into safer, less volatile asset classes

    can you sell your houses as quickly, now that prices are plummeting...?
    no..? didn't think so...

    anyway, i'm done with you now. your post about the price of your christmas tree says everything about you.

    were you bullied at school? is that why you behave like this now?
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,393 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    it's all safely stored and can be visited and checked, and it's gradually being converted into cash on each daily high, as i reduce risk and move into safer, less volatile asset classes

    Yeah ... sure you are :rotfl:

    A clever financial guru wouldn't be paying £1,100 every month off someone else's property ........ :rotfl:

    Dead money being spent by dead wood .......
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    MrRee wrote: »
    I bought way back in the late 80's ... I was so far ahead of the game that it would make you dizzy.

    Bricks and Mortar are far longer term secure bets than mickey mouse Gold and Silver ..... I just bet that you are one of the mugs who have bought - but not actually seen the Gold or Silver :rotfl:

    MUG ....

    If you were so far ahead of the game in the 80s, what happened this time round ?

    Are your jedi house buying skills fading ?

    During the festive period look out for a banner that scrolls across the bottom of the tv screen every now and then. Give em a bell and let it all out lad;)
  • SteveV2
    SteveV2 Posts: 241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    In the same timespan, starting now.

    Do you think they will do the same?

    Also, looks like you missed the boat back then :D
  • Anymore of this potty talk and santa not going bring you a new sockie


    you are just too thick to get it aren't you?

    option a
    spend 1100pcm to rent a house valued at 500,000, have no hassles and no repair costs and use the 500,000 to invest, getting returns of 300-500%, as i have done

    option b
    or, tie up 500,000 in an illiquid, depreciating assett .....down 20% in the last 5 years........


    why are you so thick that you cannot see that option a is far better than option b?

    i bet you bought a betamax video player , didn't you?
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,393 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    you are just too thick to get it aren't you?

    option a
    spend 1100pcm to rent a house valued at 500,000, have no hassles and no repair costs and use the 500,000 to invest, getting returns of 300-500%, as i have done

    option b
    or, tie up 500,000 in an illiquid, depreciating assett .....down 20% in the last 5 years........


    why are you so thick that you cannot see that option a is far better than option b?

    i bet you bought a betamax video player , didn't you?

    Oh, dear .... I seem to be talking to a dreamer of the highest order - you ARE talking 500,000 smarties aren't you? :rotfl:
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • marlonthemagnificent
    marlonthemagnificent Posts: 118 Forumite
    edited 7 December 2011 at 9:06AM
    STR_FILTH wrote: »
    Don't waste your breath old bean, these people have the financial litteracy of diahorria.


    sibley = mr ree's = STR filth = grandstand frank

    the same pathetic person has at least 4 identities.....it's so transparent and obvious by the language he uses and because he thanks all the posts made with each identity...one quick search shows that he uses each identity to thank the others, in a never ending circle

    his desparation is becoming more and more apparant......as is his loneliness and pathological behaviour

    i honestly think he is having a breakdown

    and....you really are very thick aren't you.......it's spelt "Diarrhea"



    :rotfl:
  • paulmapp8306
    paulmapp8306 Posts: 1,352 Forumite
    MrRee wrote: »
    ...... in Pre War Houses!
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    Report:- 2nd Dec 2011

    UK property built before 1919 has seen the largest surge in prices over the past 25 years, according to a new report from Halifax.

    The data reveals that properties built before the end of the First World War have risen by an average of 461 per cent - which is equivalent to £516 per month - from £33,619 in 1986 to £188,473 in 2011.
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    £516 a MONTH Increase!!

    Now, THAT - above ANYTHING else - shows that to rent is madness when profits like these are for the taking.


    All good - IF you bought a pre-war home in 1986. If you didnt the figures mean absolutely nothing.
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