The house debate
I have seen the debate about owning a house too many times now, and that intrigues me a little bit. Because the two opposing sides have the same amount of rightness in their argument. And I think there is no real right or wrong on this, but this all will root a lot on preference, working status, life status, and the ultimate decision is money, because to buy one needs money, and most of the time is a lot of them.
Let's talk about the opposing side, the argument is to buy the house on debt, yes you can have ownership of the house, but by the time you finish paying the debt the money you spent will be double the original value of the house, not to mention the maintenance, decreasing value of the house because of the age of the house, tax and so on and so forth.
If you can spare the money that you use to pay off the monthly debt payment for investing, you can get a lot more money from the investment and also from dividends, and then in the end by the time you are supposed to finish paying off the debt, you can buy a house in full cash, and yet you can still have a lot more money, since you still have the active investment.
But then the question is how constant you could be, to really spare the money from your salary monthly for the investment? and how profitable can the investment be in the next 20-30 years when the whole world is moving so fast, and a lot of things are unpredictable. who knows by the time you retire, you are still renting, with more family members and no good income for the household, because you could not keep up with the original plan that you made for investment, because of the lifestyle that you fall in. The power of money in hand will easily trap you in a bad lifestyle.
And then for those who really want to have a house, sometimes they miscalculate the income that they have to the type of house that they buy. Just because they want to have a house so bad, they can fall into bad debt from the wrong bank, or choose a bad location which makes life even harder. But in the end, if they can finish it, they can have the ownership of the house, one of the important things that we need as a human (even an animal will make their nest as well)