You get 50k dollars tax free no catch what do you plan to do with it?

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    6 days ago

    Pay off means the rest of the mortgage. So either at the end of a typical loan, or the rare cheaper houses where they still owe about half.

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      Or they could just mean they would pay down the house, which can be a big financial boon, even if not completely paid off. If you are in the US and have a normal 30 year fixed rate mortgage, then paying down 50k means you get to save on the remaining interest due on that 50k - so you don’t just save 50k, but the compounding interest due on that 50k across the remaining liftime of the loan.

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        Yes. But I think it’s possible to find 50k property. Just don’t expect much of it and to be near anything. A tiny house on a corner parcel that no one else wants.

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            Depends on where it is, how it’s cut, and the size mainly. The biggest issue I see with a corner lot is you have two sides of your property that aren’t really yours, since the street takes up some of the “right-of-way”, aka ditches and such. I could be wrong, but I always thought that and other reasons make the value of a corner lower, so the cost as well.

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              The reason i ask is because in a suburb, the corner can get twice the street parking, and sometimes extra sunlight.