Thoughts on putting a larger down payment down on a primary home in order to get my monthly costs to a very favorable number, knowing the opportunity cost of taking that money out of the market? The amount I would put down would be about 20% of my liquid net worth.

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For what it’s worth - I bought a home in cash ($2m) at 22 years old and have regretted it. If I had invested the money in the market, it would be around $5m currently, whereas my home is worth only $3m.

Do not put too much in a house.

Agree with the sentiment, but I just want to know where you got 2M cash at 22🤔

In most markets, home appreciation won’t outpace the market over the long term.

But you have to live somewhere, and if taking money out of the market to buy a house makes the monthly overhead easier, I’d say do it.

Many high net worth individuals rent their primary home because it’s cheaper, both from a monthly cost perspective but also from a use of capital perspective. But the average Joe Shmoe wants to live the “American dream” of owning a house, and putting more down to make that happen is more of a happiness play than a net worth play.

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