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Re:Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? by verbify on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:46AM (#19770240)
> How many people are poor like that?

My experience is that it is a significant percentage (i.e. more than 10%)... And about your point about home owners being poor - not everybody owns their own home (stats show it's about 2/3rds). I just don't see BTL as realistic for people struggling to make ends meet.

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Re:Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? by bubblewrap on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:26AM (#19776487)
I said the metric of "money held in the bank" would count many home owners as poor, even if they own a house that is worth 1 million dollars. Not that they are actually poor - that is the point. The metric may not be very useful.
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