Why do I think property is such an amazing investment? Well, I really don’t think there is any other investment nearly as sexy as property. Oh, I know, there is no other investment nearly as exciting as shares and stocks. The immediacy, the fact that you can watch the graph with its ups and downs all through the day, that is something. The feeling you get when the market drops right down at opening, the enjoyment as you see it gaining and edging upwards through the day to close higher than the day before. I know of few other things as exciting. But I will never call it sexy!
Property is something else again. I cannot follow the changes in value even day to day. In fact, I cannot even do it week-by-week or month-by-month. I don’t even do it annually. Nothing exciting here. In fact, it is a bit boring.
But, I did something that I cannot and never will do with shares – I borrowed money to buy the property. Now consider this: I don’t have the money to buy a property, but the bank lends me the money. So I acquire an asset of several R100 000 with no money. What will happen with this property over time? It will increase in value, not with the same up-and-down volatility of shares, but it will still increase in value. It is also less likely to decrease in value to the same extend as shares will.
What happens to the money I owe to the bank? Well, if I want to, I can repay them within 20 years. Then the property, (yes, the same one I bought with money I did not have!) is only mine! Nobody else, not even the bank, owns anything of it. That’s super sexy, don’t you agree?
But, there is something even sexier – ever since I bought it, I have been receiving an income, rental, on my property. That income continues and increases for as long as I have the property! That is why I sincerely believe that there is no other investment that can help you to become financially free as easily, with low risk, as property.
It is sexy in the extreme.