Once you are rich it does not matter any longer how much money you are losing.Based on the opportunity value of cash every dollar in equity will lose you a minimum of 5% annually sitting as dead equity.

They could structure the investment to be 10% of your home equity, growing at 0.3% per year (and they Amy assume appreciation would provide another 0.2%) or 10,500 in equity after the first year and increasing by an amortization table, whichever is greater. 

However, with buying the house, if our bid was accepted, we would gain at least $50,000 in equity immediately after the $10,000 worth of repairs were done.

Nation wide we have an average of 135k in equity.

I wouldn't have to pay any utilities so I figure with the $400 a month extra I get I could use $200 a month to pay back the remodeling would be about 16 months . last thing is I have put zero dollars down on this house and it has $31000 in equity so I figured if I dump a little money into it i'm really not losing anything ...what are your thoughts .

Take your $60-$100k in equity and put that into your next project.

I have about 50k in equity in my primary home and a pretty high savings rate which has given me the comfort of treating this money as opportunity versus depending on it for survival.Thanks!

If you buy a fixer condo and fix up and hold will you get the extra gain in equity hard to say for sure based on past models that was true.

I own a property with roughly $140k in equity.

We are actually looking to do things a little backwards and pick-up a small rental property within the next 1-2 months that we can fix up and use while traveling back and forth from Chicago to Atlanta to learn the area and prepare for our move; and then rent out the property after we purchase our new home.I'd love to learn about current areas that have potential for buying in low now, rent the property out after we are done using it, and then selling in 10 years with substantial increase in equity.