borrow money to invest

I wanted to try something different on My Money Design and throw a question out to my readers to debate.  I’m very interested to see what the outcome will be. The inspiration for this topic comes from a stellar comment that was left on my “How Much Money Would I Make If I Rented Out A House?” post.  The commenter, Richard, laid out some great plans for how he was going to build his wealth empire.  Essentially, he was going to borrow money to put together a real estate portfolio.  This is the classic old mantra of using “other people’s money” to get rich, and it is certainly a path where a lot of people seem to have found great success.  Unfortunately I’m far too much of a weenie to invest in real estate (… yet).  I prefer to invest … [Read more...] about Reader Debate – Would You Borrow Money to Invest in Stocks?