@timguestau: The first house I bought was in 2002. I paid 140,000 dollars for it. Fair to say it is worth a bit more than that now. And that is the entire engine, so let me walk you through how it actually compounds. As that first house rises in value, you build equity in it. Two things are happening at once. You are steadily reducing the mortgage, and the property is steadily increasing in value. Equity is the gap between those two lines, and the gap widens from both directions. Once there is enough of it, you use that equity as the deposit on the second property. Now you have two properties doing the same thing. Both reducing debt. Both growing in value. So the equity builds roughly twice as fast as it did with one. Once there is enough across the two, you draw on it and buy the third. Then the three of them fund the fourth. And the same applies to the fifth. That is the chain reaction. Each asset makes the next one possible, and the pace picks up as you go, because you are never starting from scratch again. The part that gets missed is that none of this works without the boring bit underneath it. Paying yourself first. Reducing the debt. Consistently, for years, while it looks like very little is happening. The first one is the hard one. Every one after it gets easier. Accessing equity is still borrowing, so it increases your debt and depends entirely on serviceability. General information only, not financial advice. #chainreaction #propertyportfolio #equity #propertyinvesting #australianproperty #investmentproperty #propertyinvestmentaustralia #wealthcreation #financialeducation #infinitewealth

Tim Guest | Financial Educator

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