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Animal Spirits Podcast

Talk Your Book: Help With Your Down Payment From Unison

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On today's Talk Your Book we sat down with Brodie Gay of Unison to discuss the difficulty of coming up with a down payment on a house, why it could make sense to share in the upside of your home, the investment opportunity in residential real estate, why real estate will play such a pivotal role in most people's retirement plans and why leveraging the roof over your head can be so dangerous. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is presented by Unison.

0:02.8

Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:08.2

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

0:14.0

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson work for Ritholz Wealth's Wealth Management.

0:18.0

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions

0:22.0

and do not reflect the opinion of

0:24.1

Ritt Holt's wealth management.

0:25.6

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.

0:30.6

Clients of Ritt Holt's wealth management may maintain positions in the securities

0:33.7

discussed in this podcast. Okay Michael I have a quiz for you. Is it A, B, C, D? No, no letters

0:40.9

for you. Let's say you wanted to say for five years to buy the median house in San Francisco.

0:48.0

Let's take away interest in any earnings on the savings.

0:51.0

So over five years... What's a median home? Is it 15 million? So the

0:55.8

median home price is between 1.3 and 1.4 million dollars in San Francisco. How much

1:00.8

would you have to save per month to get that down payment in five years?

1:04.0

Are you investing that money? Let's assume no growth on the money, but even if it was it wouldn't change things very much.

1:10.0

Are you asking me to do 1.4 million divided by 60 monthly payments?

1:14.0

You just tell you the answer?

1:16.4

It would be like $4,500 a month.

1:19.4

That's a lot of money.

1:20.4

They'd have to save.

1:21.4

If we're talking in New York York City which the average or medium

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