nordanney
2019-06-15 14:58:16
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I don’t know if I’m too stupid to understand this calculation.
You spoke of 10 years, which I took as the basis for my calculation.
If I enter these numbers into an interest calculator, the result is:
Interest paid after 29.5 years: 127k euros
Yes, after 30 years = paid cold rent of the owner.
In 30 years, as a tenant, you pay 875€ x 12 months x 29.5 years = 310k€. So the tenant pays in 30 years (I calculate without rent increase, which is unrealistic) about 2.5 times what the owner has to pay. But the owner has a house and you only have an apartment.
Find the tenant’s mistake
You can set aside the 30,000 for maintenance and renovation.
That’s possible too, but nothing happens in 10 years. With new construction, you can expect renovation measures from years 20-30. Cosmetic repairs are the same as for the tenant.
Why has the owner achieved a savings performance of 110k euros and the tenant not? Is that money in your account or is it again some fictional performance caused by inflation and low interest?
Because the owner reduced his loan in 10 years from 400k€ to 290k€. So he increased his assets (house value remains constant) by 110k€. You as tenant have to, in order to have the same increase in assets after 10 years, besides your monthly rent of 875€, also make a savings effort, probably in the amount of 700-900€. So you spend significantly more for the same result after 10 years than the owner.
And why should an owner save more than a tenant? That all depends on the monthly savings rate taken from the salary, or am I wrong? And that in turn depends on the salary and the saver’s willingness. I don’t deal with fictitious and theoretically saved money.
The owner is forced to save by the bank. The tenant has to overcome their inner weaker self and reduce consumption in favor of a savings rate (amount see above). You can do all that. BUT: The average person does not do it.
That is the problem or the reason why the owner can usually live better in old age than the tenant.
I tell you honestly, just for house costs and interest I can easily live in rent in our area for 40 to 50 years (800 - 900 cold) without restrictions
That this is not entirely true, you can take from my calculations. The cold rent = interest payment of the owner is lower than your cold rent to the landlord, combined with (subjectively) higher living quality.
Then I’ll fall into the grave and had no stress
Who has stress? Problem for you can be that as a tenant you do not provide for old age and then have to pay rent for 20 years in retirement, while the owner sits in the paid-off place. Or even better moves into a small condominium and then can spend the surplus assets without having stress during his working life.