{"id":533,"date":"2007-06-19T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2007-06-19T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:22:53","slug":"why-rent-to-get-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/why-rent-to-get-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why rent? To get richer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Banking\/HomebuyingGuide\/WhyRentToGetRicher.aspx\">An article<\/a> I probably only like because it re-affirms my own decisions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shares have been remarkably consistent over the past two centuries in their 7% real returns. In Jeremy Siegel&#8217;s book &#8220;Stocks for the Long Run,&#8221; he finds that real returns averaged 7% over nearly seven decades ending in 1870, then 6.6% through 1925 and then 6.9% through 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The average real return for houses over long periods might surprise you: It&#8217;s virtually zero. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article I probably only like because it re-affirms my own decisions. Shares have been remarkably consistent over the past two centuries in their 7% real returns. In Jeremy Siegel&#8217;s book &#8220;Stocks for the Long Run,&#8221; he finds that real returns averaged 7% over nearly seven decades ending in 1870, then 6.6% through 1925 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-8B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}