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108 Year 7 month Amortization… Totally Cool Says The Fed!

108 Year 7 month Amortization… Totally Cool Says The Fed!

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]July 2015 I wrote 136 words on this topic, hoping that the image alone would get some traction. It was a pretty insane image to a numbers geek like me – linked here.   Perhaps this 381 words worth will garner more...
Are You A Genius?

Are You A Genius?

Three Types of Real Estate Investors   There are three types of real estate investors. There’s the Tourist, the Committed (mostly), and the Genius.   The Tourist   The Tourist is somebody who converts their owner-occupied property into a rental and retains...
Has Mortgage Debt Shot Up?

Has Mortgage Debt Shot Up?

  WHAT ABOUT OUR DEBT LEVELS?   Amidst increasing media and water-cooler chatter of potential drops in real estate values of X%–Y%, let’s take a moment and review the systemic risk via mortgage debt numbers.   The first, and largest, piece of the puzzle...
Brexit & Your Mortgage

Brexit & Your Mortgage

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Short Version Lower rates for longer is the initial prognosis. Referendums: Just a flawed concept.   Long Version While Canada is somewhat insulated from the direct economic consequences of Brexit, so little of CDN...
No Bubble To See Here – Part 5 – When Rates Rise

No Bubble To See Here – Part 5 – When Rates Rise

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]But when rates go back up…   It is not when, it is if. I wrote that correctly. If they go up, as in if they go up in time to matter to me or to you, Mr. & Mrs. Homeowner. Maybe they stay low for another ten or...