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Your house isn't worth what you're paying

November 6, 2008 | Comment icon 46 comments
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Your house isn’t worth what you’re paying for it, then again it never was. An estimated 12 million Americans owe more on their mortgage than their homes are worth. Add to that the fact that home prices are dropping, down 9% from a year ago. Real estate was traditionally the one thing you could count on, going up in value at 10% annually on average. One of the mechanisms of the money matrix is to make you pay more for your house than it is worth. This is usually accomplished through the sinister use of compound interest. There was a time in this country when compound interest was considered usury and was illegal. Today, sadly it is the norm.

If you had started buying a house in 1980 for $50,000 at an interest rate of 8.5%, not unusual at the time, over the course of the 30 year mortgage you would have paid $200,000 in interest. That means when you signed the papers to buy that $50,000 house, you really agreed to pay $250.000 over 30 years for that house. That is five times as much as it was worth at the time.

Likewise if you were looking to buy an average home in America now at a price of $200,000, you will really be paying closer to a million dollars over 30 years with $800,000 of that in interest! If the real estate agent told you the house is worth $200,000 but you will be required to pay a million for it, would you do it?

Recently while called before Congress, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called the banking and housing crisis a “Once-in-a-century credit tsunami.” Once in a century means one time in a one hundred year period. I pointed out in my article “2012 and the Economy” that the monied elite were on a 100 year timeline from December 21, 1913 to December 21, 2012. It seems Alan Greenspan vindicates that fact.

One way to avoid paying more than a house is worth is to pay cash for it in one lump. The only problem with that is that most of us,(98%) do not have the ability to pay full price up front. Only two groups of people can do that, those who are the monied elite, and criminals. Poor dumb honest b******* have to apply for credit.
Alan Greenspan said, “There is a flaw in the model that defines how the world works.” This flaw is The Money Matrix! Greenspan further said, “I still do not fully understand why it happened.”

In the old days, before the money matrix, banks actually had money they loaned to people to buy a house.

They charged a small interest rate, 4%, which allowed people to pay off the house in a ten year period with a default rate of less than one half percent. That means 99.5% of everyone were able to pay back the loan of real money to buy real estate.

Today, banks do not loan real money because they do not have any money to lend. There is no money! Instead they extend credit, a negative in the first place, add to that compound interest of 8% over 30 years. The idea is to separate you from all the income you will earn in your lifetime. It is a mechanism of the Money Matrix.

Wake up people, the money matrix has you!

Phillip Tilley is author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles. Comments (46)


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Comment icon #37 Posted by Oen Anderson 16 years ago
Actually my problem was with the article saying compound interest was unfair. I was trying to show that with leverage you can make a lot of money with real estate. Interest is just a cost of doing business. If you gave me $1000 and after one year I gave you $110,000 but took back $100,000 in fees would you complain? of course not, you just got around 1000% ROI. Return on Investment is the important amount. Because you run a rental business for you the interest is a cost of doing business, but for the other 93% of people just buying a home it is just a cost! If I have to pay back five dollars f... [More]
Comment icon #38 Posted by Oen Anderson 16 years ago
Actually my problem was with the article saying compound interest was unfair. I was trying to show that with leverage you can make a lot of money with real estate. Interest is just a cost of doing business. If you gave me $1000 and after one year I gave you $110,000 but took back $100,000 in fees would you complain? of course not, you just got around 1000% ROI. Return on Investment is the important amount. Because you run a rental business for you the interest is a cost of doing business, but for the other 93% of people just buying a home it is just a cost! If I have to pay back five dollars f... [More]
Comment icon #39 Posted by CarlClassen 16 years ago
And what you're talking about is investing in rental properties, which is completely different than investing in your primary home. Another ball game entirely. For example, last year, I toyed with the idea of building a detached apartment on my primary home's property. My bid were for roughly 160K to complete this build (two car garage with a 700sq ft apartment behind it, with it's own small backyard... real small. LOL. I thought to myself, holy moses... I can't do that! I can't get enough in rent to cover the construction loan!! However, in my recent research, I"m finding that similar rentals... [More]
Comment icon #40 Posted by CarlClassen 16 years ago
Because you run a rental business for you the interest is a cost of doing business, but for the other 93% of people just buying a home it is just a cost! If I have to pay back five dollars for every dollar I borrow I might get a better rate at a loan shark. ? Loan sharks compound. Everyone compounds, your bank account compounds! Compounding is the interest paid on interest...
Comment icon #41 Posted by Darkwind 16 years ago
The only house I ever got fully paid for was a trailer house. Paid it off in two years and I would have been satisfied with it but I had to rent property to put it on. Taxes on trailer houses are considered personal property so they are way lower. Had to sell the trailer because the property owner wanted to build a golf course. So I started buying a house and the payment goes up every year because of the property taxes and insurance. I figured out that I pay more every year in taxes than my Dad paid for his house in 1970. Also by the time I'm done paying for it, I will have paid as much in tax... [More]
Comment icon #42 Posted by Oen Anderson 16 years ago
Our market here in this part of Canada is quite different. Our prices are still going up but we never had the 10-20% increase like in the US. Wow $2000? heheh you could rent huge houses here for that Well forget rental than. The bottom line is that you have to pay to live somewhere, unless your at home. Overall house prices tend to go up. Do you have to pay interest to borrow money? Of course you do. they don't lend you money out of charity. I just can't see what so evil about compound interest. What else does the original writer expect the banks to do? It looks from the article that he sugges... [More]
Comment icon #43 Posted by theQ 16 years ago
Blame yourselves for dreaming up ways to screw each other.
Comment icon #44 Posted by The Old Medic 16 years ago
In one sense, your house is worth whatever value YOU place on it. That is what it is worth to YOU. In the economic sense, your house is worth whatever you can get another person to pay for it. That's what it is worth on the market. In November, 2006 I sold a 1,750 square foot, 35 fyear old Southern California tract home, on 1/10 of an acre for $520,000. That was it's market value on that day. In 2007, that house was for sale listed at $360,000. It finally sold for $315,000. That was its market value on that day. I purchased a 6 year old 3,250 square foot home, on 3.5 acres of land in Kentucky,... [More]
Comment icon #45 Posted by southbronxden 16 years ago
The problem is much larger than any one person. This is super inflation caused by banking deregualtion. The inflation causes the price on everything to be much higher than it's worth...oh by the way pay checks haven't kept pace with inflation...imagine if people were paid fairly. STOP dreaming everyone loses.
Comment icon #46 Posted by Oen Anderson 16 years ago
The problem is much larger than any one person. This is super inflation caused by banking deregualtion. The inflation causes the price on everything to be much higher than it's worth...oh by the way pay checks haven't kept pace with inflation...imagine if people were paid fairly. STOP dreaming everyone loses. According to Tilleys model of the money matrix, inflation is caused by using a debt based fiat currency, which by its very nature creates inflation as more debt is borrowed into existence to pay the interest on the original debt. So if that is in fact what is happening, we are not experie... [More]


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