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Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

1045: Q&A: Does It Make Sense to Pull Out My Equity? - Episode 1045

Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

Clayton Morris

How To, News, Education, Business News, Business, Investing

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

If you have a historically low interest rate on your mortgage, does it make sense to take out a HELOC and pay current interest rates to tap into your equity? This is a great question -- and it's one we're going to explore on this Q&A episode of Investing in Real Estate!

On today's show, I'm answering three of your great questions on various investing and financial topics like pulling out your home equity, dealing with the wrongdoings of a past tenant, and how to decide if you should sell or hold your investments during times of economic turmoil. Click play to hear my answers to your questions!

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0:00.0

Well, the Federal Reserve just admitted they don't know what to do. They're throwing up their hands.

0:10.0

They're basically saying, we're done, we can't stop stop inflation this is the state of affairs right

0:14.6

now in the United States and we are going to have to sit back and watch this

0:18.2

inflation run hot for the coming years get ready for it folks this is what the

0:22.3

Federal Reserve is doing we thought we would see rate cuts this year in 2024. And they told us we would probably see likely three rate cuts this year. And of course, Wall Street got excited about that.

0:34.0

Oh, interest rates coming down.

0:35.8

You know, homeowners maybe excited about that

0:37.6

or interest rates coming down.

0:39.2

Well, now we know that that's not going to happen.

0:40.9

It looks like we might just get one small little rate cut maybe by

0:44.1

December of this year, but the Fed is basically saying inflation now is going to run

0:49.5

hot and even hotter and the numbers pouring in are showing that inflation is getting out of control.

0:54.9

We just got our new CPI numbers, the consumer price index numbers, which really measures

0:58.6

about 80,000 different products and you know it's not good we already know that the prices for just

1:04.7

about everything are up about 30% for Americans across the board and now we know

1:09.3

that the Fed is saying we're not going to really do anything with inflation anymore we're going to allow it to

1:13.7

run hot and even hotter.

1:15.4

So as I've talked about in other videos this is really a tale of two different economies

1:18.9

emerging right now.

1:20.2

Poor and middle class being really squished, really squished, put through the ringer,

1:26.0

while the rich will get richer because companies are going to continue to make a lot of money

1:30.9

as people spend more money on products and services.

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