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Originally Posted by squiggs96
I agree with pretty much everything here. My point I was trying to make is whether it is good debt or debt debt, it is still debt.
I have a LOC on my house and mortgages on two rental properties. I have net equity in all three, but I still have debt on all three. I'm okay being in debt as I can service it all without extending myself. I likely won't be debt free for 20 years, as I will continue to buy rental properties and financing 80% of each one. I'll sell them eventually, but to be truely debt free won't happen anytime soon.
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I suppose my point was that this type of borrowing isn't the "reason our economy is in such trouble" and debt isn't the boogeyman that people are making out to be.
To say that most canadians are naive about how long they'll be in debt is probably in large part because most young canadians think paying off debt is the most important thing, until they meet with a financial planner and they explain to you that there are better things to do with your money, and therefore they won't aggressively pay down some of their "good" debt.