Based on the actual Zillow report, it’s just based on home values across the board in different regions. So, these are averages. Of course, if you make more improvements and stuff, your result would vary.
I’m not sure I quite understand what that means how would they even know if I’ve broken even or not?
I own my house but the only way I would know if I’d “broken even” was to constantly get it evaluated. Also is there analysis assuming that I’m going to do improvements or not?
Because you can buy a house, own it for 6 months and sell it again for a profit, and you can do that if you do renovations. Equally you can buy a house own it for 5 years and sell it and make a loss because you’ve not done any maintenance or renovations in that time.
I know for a fact the person I bought the house of hardly made any money on the sale because the roof has a giant hole in it. Obviously that brings the price down.
watty@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Moneo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Break even being your house has increased in value by the amount you’ve spent on those expenses.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So it takes 13 years to get out from being upside down on the loan? Yikes
Moneo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not if I understand the phrase correctly. The house may be valued more than what is remaining on your loan, but you’ve spent a lot of money closing the house. So if you sold before the 13 years you would be able to pay off your loan but you would have lost money.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gotchya, so if they had 0% or low down payment they would be upside down for 10+ years.