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Your Home is a Place to Live and Call Home

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Real Estate Agent with ReMax

However, with all the water cooler stories of getting rich from the real estate ‘gold rush',

a different thought process creep into our consciousness. The primary purpose of home buying became "Investment"; not primary traditional reasons of:

  • Use - as a place to live
  • tax break,
  • inflationary hedge
  • long-term savings
  • longer-term capital appreciation

Do not think, foremost, as your home as an investment. History tells us that over the "long-term' , families do create a nest egg and acquire capital appreciation. However, The key phrase to remember being "long-term".

A house should be a place to live. A place to enjoy. A place to raise a family. A place to meet friends and neighbors. A place to develop roots and community bonds. A place to call home.

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Jill McTague
RE/MAX Andrew Realty Serfvices - Medford, MA
DebOnTheWeb & Associates - Medford, MA Real Estate

Daniel - you are absolutely right.  Our homes aren't a giant piggy bank to keep taking money out of - they are where we live, where we raise our families.  Yes, long term they will appreciate.
Deb

Oct 23, 2008 09:05 AM