Firstly, I do understand that there is a bit of a moral issue with Buy To Let. I'm not naturally a landlord type myself, but laying aside the arguments about exploitation or artificially keeping the housing market out of reach for younger people, I wonder what people might think about getting into Buy To Let at the moment.
Bit of background first: we're lucky enough to have plenty of equity in our home, but we don't really have much in the way of savings or pensions.
What I'd like to do would be use our equity to invest in property and rent out long term so that we would have the asset more or less paid off in 20 years time.
With a fair wind, I don't see why we wouldn't be able to build up a little portfolio so that as well as some pension provision for ourselves, we could also help ensure that the children could go through education without ending up in 60/70/80k worth of debts or whatever it would be.
So, what does anyone think?
I wouldn't expect any capital gains in the short or even medium term, but it would be nice to have something ticking over in the background.
Having both been a landlord and a tenant over the years, I was happy with both arrangements both times and am just wondering whether now is the time to delve back into that world.
I don't think the Euro will collapse, but we'll wait and see. The economy round here (SW, not too far from Bath) isn't too bad, fortunately and obviously I'd take into account the interest rates won't always be this low. Families rent houses now in a way that they didn't a decade ago, so that's the market we were thinking of going after. We rented here ourselves for 18 months after re-locating.
So, risk some our our (not-very-hard-earned) equity to feather our nest for the future? To be honest, I can't see of any other way of providing a decent pension for ourselves. Or helping the children out when they need us.
We're in our 40s now, 3 young children and all fine, but feeling like we're all getting a bit older and would like to plan ahead. We're very lucky to be healthy and happy, but don't want to struggle when we're older.
Anyway, sorry for the long one, but any thoughts/ideas/opinions/experiences would be welcomed.
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Is Buy To Let a Good Idea at the Moment?
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JandLandG · 06/09/2012 15:44
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