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Will You Try To Pay Off Your Housing Loan ASAP If You Have One?
By Create Wealth Through Long-Term Investing and Short-Term Trading  •  September 2, 2009
[caption id="attachment_1174" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Weighing the options"]Weighing the options[/caption] One young lady asked me this question at the cbox: "Will You Try To Pay Off Your Housing Loan ASAP If You Have One?" I believe she was referring to housing loan for residential purpose i.e My Home For Investing in Property. http://createwealth8888.blogspot.com/2009/08/investing-in-property-is-far-safer-than_22.html and I posted many articles under Label: Education - Property --> http://createwealth8888.blogspot.com/search/label/Education%20-%20Property For residential home, let begins the discussion with a quote from Albert Yang. "A man is not a man; until there is a house that he may call his castle. A woman is not a woman; until she has a place she may call her home. And neither a man nor a woman can say anything about their house, until they are the masters of it, and own it outright and unencumbered." Many people will tell you that Housing Loan is the cheapest loan in town and you should take advantage of it or else you look like a fool. If that it is really true, why don't you buy the cheapest rice, eat at cheapest hawker stall, and do your shopping at the cheapest supermarket, etc. But life is not like that. Not anything that is the cheapest will offer you a better option. Maybe it is just not for you. Mortgage Loans Banks love mortgages as home loans are secured loans. Secured means the bank has the ability to take the home back if you don’t make payments on the loan. Banks often have wars with each other to attract new home buyers with low initial interest rates for home loan. Read more...
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By Create Wealth Through Long-Term Investing and Short-Term Trading
I am 62 yrs old uncle living in HDB heartland who has achieved financial independence @ 56 and finally retired @ 60 from full-time job as employee on 1 Oct 2016. Single household income since 1995 with three children. Eldest son and daughter are now working and youngest son still in his 3nd year Uni in SUTD. I have been doing long-term investing and short-term trading in Singapore stock market only since Jan 2000 so I am that Panda or Koala in the investment world; but I am still surviving well in the wild. I am now executing my Three Taps solution model to maintain sustainable retirement income for life till 2038. Cheers!
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