re: #285 Occasional Reader

For entirely personal reasons, I’m just not looking to buy a house right now (may transfer overseas in the not-too-distant, too lazy to be an absentee landlord). Otherwise, I’d be all over getting a mortgage loan right now.

One strategy being kicked around, and I’m not suggesting anybody do this mind you, just mentioning it, is to take out a personal line of credit if you can get a low fixed rate, wait for inflation to take off, then borrow the money at the fixed lower rate and invest it at the increasing higher rate in the future.

It’s a potential for legal arbitrage.