From Buffett: Keep your first house and your first wife.

And work on paying your first house off early. The rest comes and can go. Stable home attenuated the unpredictable ups and downs.

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CalRobert an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Well that would depend on your interest rate, presumably. Especially since interest is tax deductible in some places.

If you _do_ break up, this also makes it harder for one person to keep the house, which might be bad if there's kids in a local school, etc. If you have 100k in equity it's easier to buy out your ex than if you have 1 million in equity.

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simpsond 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What if you have a mortgage with 2.5% interest? Even if I had enough liquid assets to pay it off, I wouldn’t with the current market.

	▲	nxm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's about individual tolerance for risk and ability to sleep at night knowing that the bank still holds the title to your house.