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Building Family Wealth Through Real Estate
We have discussed about how owning a home could significantly increase a person's net worth. Today we're giving you four more proven ways on how real estate can build sizable family wealth.
1. Appreciation
"The rising of home prices over time, is how the majority of wealth is built in real estate. This is the 'home run' you hear of when people make a large windfall of money. While prices fluctuate, over the long run real estate values have always gone up, always, and there is no reason to think that is going to change.
One thing to consider when it comes to real estate appreciation affecting your ROI is the fact that appreciation combined with leverage offers huge returns. If you buy a property for $200,000 and it appreciates to $220,000, your property had made you a 10% return. However, you likely didn't pay cash for the property and instead used the bank's money. If you consider that you may have put 10% down ($20,000), you actually have doubled your investment, a 100% return."
2. Leverage
"By nature, real estate is one of the easiest assets to leverage I have ever come across-maybe the easiest. Not only is it easy ... more

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