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Secret #68 – 26% of Realtors™ Are Landlords

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Secret #67 – The Largest Lobbying Organization in the U.S. is The National Association of Realtors (NAR)

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Secret #66 – The Housing Wealth Effect is a Double-Edged, Lopsided Sword

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Secret #65 – The Fed Happily Destabilizes Family Wealth to Stabilize Wall Street

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Secret #64 – The Fed’s Mandate is Stable Prices… EXCEPT House Prices

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Secret #63 – How to Easily Increase Home Ownership for FREE!

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Secret #62 – Tax Breaks for Landlords Increase Homelessness

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Secret #61 – Landlords Bought More Single-Family Houses from 2008 to 2012 than All New Single-Family Houses Built

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Secret #60 – The Landlord Next Door Gets a Lot of Tax Breaks You Don’t

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Secret #59 – We Have 2 Completely Different Tax Codes for Single-Family Houses

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Secret #58 – From 2018 to 2021 Interest Rates Fell So Much We Could Have Converted From 30-Year Mortgages to 20-Year Mortgages Without Increasing Monthly Mortgage Payments

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Secret #57 – With the Exact Same Monthly Principal and Interest Mortgage Payment – In December 2020 You Could Borrow 31% More Money to Buy a House than You Could in November 2018

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Secret #56 – About 80% of House Price Appreciation from 1990 through 2020 was Due to Falling Mortgage Interest Rates

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Secret #55 – 17% of ALL U.S. Home Owners with Mortgages Were Still Underwater 5 Years AFTER The End of The Great Recession

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Secret #54 – The Great Real Estate Bubble Was Amazingly Symmetric – Prices Often Fell Like They Rose

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Secret #53 – 1 Secret Reason for the 2000s Real Estate Bubble

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Secret #52 – Housing Bubbles are Common Historically

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Secret #51 – High House Prices Don’t Help Current Home Owners Much Unless They’re Last-Home Sellers

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Secret #50 – Housing Bubbles Hurt Older Home Owners, Too

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Secret #49 – The VA Has a Lot More Zero Down Payment Mortgages Than FHA But the VA Has FEWER Foreclosures!

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