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Asset 17 56.67%
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:27 PM   #1
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Which do you think and why?
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:28 PM   #2
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House is an asset
Mortgage is a liability
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House is an asset
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Very well put.
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House is an asset
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:31 PM   #5
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House is an asset
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Why do you consider the house an asset though? Because the price of it goes up over the years you live there? (ignore housing price crash)
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:32 PM   #6
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I wish more people treated their home as a liability rather than an "investment".
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:36 PM   #7
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Why do you consider the house an asset though?
Because of the dictionary.
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:36 PM   #8
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It is a liabilty when you first purchase it.

As you maintain/improve it and make payments on it, it becomes an asset.

An asset by def is an item of ownership convertible into cash, which a house is.
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I own a structure called a house.
In order to purchase this structure, I got SECURED loan.

The value of the home after the loan agreement is irrelevant.
It's mine. Its an asset.


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Old 12-14-2009, 05:47 PM   #10
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it's an asset until something happens to it and makes it a liability
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