This post is part of the πŸ“– The Lifestyle Investor series.


Today, I am reading How to Use Debt to Your Advantage section from the chapter Commandment 9: Use Leverage to Your Advantage of the book The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom written by Author, Justin Donald.

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Yesterday, I read half of the Commandment 9: Use Leverage to Your Advantage section from the book.

Commandment 9: Use Leverage to Your Advantage

How to Use Debt to Your Advantage

Another successful Lifestyle Investor strategy is to buy assets and hold them forever and never sell them. If you need cash, you can borrow against these assets and pledge them as collateral.

You can pledge your real estate, your stock, and your whole-life insurance as collateral, among other assets.

You can do something similar with real estate as well. As your real estate appreciates, you can go to the bank and refinance the real estate and pull out that debt to live on tax-free.

There is no capital gain because you didn’t sell anything, and you have no income from it because you are just borrowing against it.

How Lifestyle Investing Works

This next example utilizes several of the strategies from this chapter and is a perfect example of Lifestyle Investing.

Key Takeaways

  • Most people don’t know that their stock can be pledged as collateral. Let’s say you own $1,000,000 of Amazon stock. You can currently go to your local bank and get an $800,000 loan at London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus 50 basis points (0.5%) for a total of 0.65% interest.

  • LIBOR is the benchmark interest rate that global banks use to lend to one another. There is no tax treatment on getting one of these loans because they are not taxable.

Summary

  • You could find an asset and do seller financing with a low down payment or no down payment or use one of the financing options the author has discussed in this chapter.

  • Perhaps you could find a service provider or partner willing to make improvements on your property for a small percentage of income. Then you could find a property manager who would also work for a small percentage of income. This scenario is a no-cash transaction with no risk.

That’s it for today. Tomorrow, we will read the Commandment 10: Every Dollar of Investment Gets a Return section.

Recap of Commandments:
  • Commandment 1: Lifestyle First
  • Commandment 2: Reduce the Risk
  • Commandment 3: Find Invisible Deals
  • Commandment 4: Get the Principal Back Quickly
  • Commandment 5: Create Cash Flow Immediately
  • Commandment 6: Find an Income Amplifier
  • Commandment 7: Plus the Deal
  • Commandment 8: Cut Out the Fat
  • Commandment 9: Use Leverage to Your Advantage


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Part 23 of 25 in the πŸ“– The Lifestyle Investor book series.

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