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Adam Clark

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
314 total appearances

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The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

That's doable.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

It's not necessarily financially responsible.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

And really the big issue there, and I'm touching on this because it will feed into some kind of tidbits around the green loans.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

The issue there is that, yes, you might get car finance at 5% instead of 10%.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

But you're then paying for it over 30 years.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

So the lifetime cost of that borrowing actually is significantly more.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

And it's based on the term of that loan.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

Correct.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

Yeah, that car will be long gone.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

So no, you're absolutely right.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

There is some really awesome product available.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

You know, green loans, good energy home loans, greater choices loans.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

Pretty much all the banks offer them.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

Not all, but most.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

But they do have slightly different structure around how they operate.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

So one of the banks will give you 0%.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

Totally.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

It's free money, basically.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

The catch with that is it's structured over a relatively short term and so it becomes expensive.

The Prosperity Project
The mortgage traps costing Kiwis thousands

So that's a maximum facility size of $50,000.