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Peggie Hall
 
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Parallax wrote:
Interest only, on an item that loses value, you gotta be kidding.
Sounds like financial suicide.... This sounds incredibly foolish.


I agree! Worse yet, he'd be spending money he doesn't have on the
expectation of increased income two years down the road. What if
something changes that prevents that from happening?

Besides, 99% of "regular" loan payments are interest--almost no
reduction of principal--for the first few years anyway, so you wouldn't
gain anything.

Find boats to crew on for the next two years while you save the money
you'd have put into payments...then, if you really do have enough
increased income in two years to afford a boat, you can use that money
as a larger down payment to reduce loan payments...leaving you more of
the increased income to spend on maintenance, insurance, upgrades,
dockage, and even a few non-boat things.


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Peggie
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