Mark Moss explains why real estate beats other investments in America: 30-year mortgages let you leverage cheap debt, inflation shrinks what you owe, tenants pay the mortgage, and tax deductions turn a small down payment into huge write-offs. Most people miss how these work together.
Real estate has a ton of advantages that most people just don't understand. And so if you're smart enough to understand, like, number one, in America, we have 30-year debt. We get a 30-year mortgage at really low rates, and at the rate of inflation, it pays off that debt. So we have really good leverage. We have inflation-destroyed debt. We have the tenants can pay the debt for us, and then we get massive tax benefits for that. So I could buy a million-dollar building with $100 grand and get a million dollars of write-off. Wealthy real estate investors look at it as a tool, not real estate.
