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• Home Sweet Investment Houses by the Numbers

When somebody puts monthly money into the stock market, it's pretty easy to say, 'Let's skip this month,'" he says. "If you've got a mortgage, it's a bit more challenging to skip. "When you 'win' a bidding war, you are throwing in some really risky money," [Ted Rechtshaffen] says. "You have overpaid for it, and you might not get it back." "With negative equity, you don't own a home," [Stanley Hamilton] says, adding if the home's value drops tens of thousands of dollars below the loan's balance, it can mean losing the asset entirely. "The market has kicked you in the teeth and now you have to make a decision whether you walk away from it and the implications to your credit rating."

... -- when real estate was booming -- a calculator on its website comparing home ownership's power to...Over a 25-year amortization period, the interest payments can cost as much as ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 30, 2009

• Money's Cheap, but We're Cheaper

We're gonna hedge a little bit and be conservative, but that's just the culture of the place," said retail analyst Rob Warren, executive director of the Stu Clarke Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business. "But the low rates will absolutely have an impact. Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada's interest rate was slashed again this week to 0.25 per cent, which is the lowest on record, effectively zero. Mortgage, car loan and credit line rates aren't quite that rock-bottom, but they are the lowest in memory. Everyone's throwing cheap money at consumers in an effort to get them to spend their way into renewed prosperity. There are federal tax credits for home renos, new-car promotions that allow you to return the car if you lose your job, new kinds of...

... a $150,000 mortgage and a 25-year amortization period would cost you:. Interest rate: 19.5%. Like... of Canada, TD Canada Trust mortgage calculator. Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partne...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 09, 2009