Parker - Real Estate Smart: What Your House Does To Your Life, And Why You Should Know About It.

REAL

ESTATE

SMART

What Your House Does To Your Life,

And Why You Should Know About It.

MATT PARKER

Copyright 2015 Matt Parker
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INTRODUCTION

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we dont know. However, there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we dont know we dont know.

DONALD RUMSFELD

I wish somebody had told me that!

ANYONE WHO HAS EVER BOUGHT A HOME

W hen you buy a home, the things that you dont know you dont know have a profound effect on your lifenot just on your financial prosperitybut also your fitness, health, safety, romance, job performance, and happiness. Consider these facts:

One feature in a given neighborhood encourages fitness up to 20 percent greater than others.

One item on your street will make your children significantly safer, particularly from automobile accidents.

A particular condition you may practice in your home makes many women chronically stressed.

One trait of your neighbor plays a large part in whether or not you will divorce.

One decision when signing your loan paperwork can cost you $100,000 or more.

Your distinct personal home choice influences every subsequent decision you make in all of the important categories of your life: love, freedom, influence, and vitality. Your home, including its location, is an inanimate physical construct. Despite this fact, this brick and mortar affects the outcome of your life more than any other physical object you will ever encounter. The real-estate market, as a whole, is far less meaningful to you than your specific location within it.

This book will reveal your distinct personal answers to the following vital questions:

1.How do I maximize the romantic, financial, and interpersonal aspects of my relationship through my home choice?

2.How do I keep my loved ones safe, healthy, and brimming with positive memories?

3.What simple home choices increase my wealth and move me to financial well-being and toward financial freedom?

4.How do I choose a home that makes high-level fitness, physique, confidence, and health natural by-products of my day-to-day life?

5.Which home choice improves my performance at work and places me among positive, productive, and financially exemplary people?

These are the first of many vital housing choicessmall, simple choicesyou will explore in this book. Once you have applied your personal preference to modern, scientific, and proven housing decision making, you are well equipped to build your best life in the best home for you.

The laws of real-estate past do not apply today; we are fundamentally different than we were even one generation ago:

Our relationships are increasingly forged through proactive independent choices, as opposed to dependent circumstantial necessity. Who, why, and where we live with has changed.

Our jobs change frequently, their locations and hours dictated by technology. The job we have in two years may not exist today. The physical location of our job is always in flux.

Our access to food and health information is unprecedented, yet the complexity of personal nourishment and health care leaves the majority of Americans less energized, less mobile, and less fit.

Ours is the first American generation expected to live shorter lives than our parents. Does our home motivate fitness, create health, and ensure longevity?

The laws our parents dutifully followed when buying homes have changed. At the time of print, the Case-Shiller Index, the standard time-tested measure for home-value appreciation, shows real-estate price appreciation at just over 0 percent over the last ten years: no increase (over the last thirty years, 1.3 percent increase per year)[]. Which emotionally instilled laws of generations past do we follow, and what new ones must we learn?

Here is how to be real estate smart.

US national index levels, not seasonally adjusted. Historic prices are inflation adjusted May 2015 dollars. Dec. 1, 1984 to Dec. 1, 2014.

CONTENTS

REAL

ESTATE

SMART

What Your House Does To Your Life,

And Why You Should Know About It.

SECTION I

HOW A HOUSE HELPS YOUR HEALTH

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

SIGMUND FREUD

Sigmund Freud was born in a rented room in this locksmiths house, in Pbor, Czech Republic.

YOUR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR MATERIAL POSSESSIONS

You have a distinct attractive relationship with every material item you own. The strength of the relationship and your emotional intensity toward each item is directly correlated to how much you touch the possession and how long you own it.[]

Material Item. You have a real emotional bond with your material possessions.

This is one reason smartphones are so dear to us: you touch yours thousands of times a day and develop a real, clinically measurable attachment to it.

This is also a main reason you cant throw away the dozens of old clothing items you havent worn and will not ever wear again; you are emotionally attached to them. This is because we have direct physical contact with our clothes; they are very difficult to get rid of. How would you feel if someone tried to light your high-school football jersey or favorite T-shirt on fire in front of you?