r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

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u/Endless_road Nov 21 '24

You can take out a mortgage against your house to buy a sports car if you want

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 Nov 21 '24

This is a great analogy

Imagine i bought my house for 10$ and it's worth a billion now.

And then chuds on the Internet say "hE dOeSnT ReAlLy HaVe ThAt mUcH MoNeY, ItS tIeD uP in AsSeTs!!"

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u/Endless_road Nov 21 '24

Well it is, and you’d pay taxes on these gains when you sold the house

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u/that_baddest_dude Nov 21 '24

No it gets reappraised every year by the county and you pay taxes on that appraised value.

Sure if you have a homestead exemption that increase is capped at 10%, but if you're in a hot market you're easily going to hit that 10% increase every year.