Comments on: Are Stocks Worse Investments Than Real Estate?

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Carnival of Financial Learning #10 | Financial Learn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:33:53 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:34:18 +0000

Julie, I understand how leverage works. It is basically like buying stocks on margin. In your husband’s article, he didn’t mention that leverage cuts both ways. So now in a declining real estate market people are losing more than 100% of their investments.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:28:27 +0000

Stocks are definitely more liquid. I can’t argue with you on that, but real estate has the power of leverage. With a small amount of money you can get money in your pocket each month, increase your net worth and build equity. Plus you actually have control over your investment. You can check out our side in an article my husband wrote recently: http://revnyou.com/December_17_2007_Investing_in_Real_Estate_vs._Stocks.html

By: hank

hank — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:24:46 +0000

The 50/50 hindsight thing is the big thing. If my old man had only known to keep the Mickey Mantle baseball cards he put in his tire spokes as kids, he’s be rich too. So why don’t you invest in baseball card? Mickey’s rookie card is pushing 100k now and it was bought for a penny, how’s that for beating inflation?