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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
Do you get to live in the S&P 500? A home is not simply an investment.

If you purchased the home as an investment and RENTED it, you would also add an income stream to the investment.

At $200K, you might have rented it for $1200 per month. Assuming the rent went up with your assessed value, 75% over 15 years, the average collected rent would be $1650/month.

Bingo...

if you factor in the rent you earned on the house (or would otherwise have to spend) assuming an average monthly of 1650/month, your annualized return is almost 12%!

That calculator is pretty misleading...
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