29/09/2016
Question: What is the difference between good debt and bad debt?
One of the most common answers I would get is that a credit card or personal loan is bad debt. Whereas a home loan will be considered good debt.
I completely disagree with the description above.
Let me give you a good example by what I mean by this. One of my friends is a part time car dealer. He has an overdraft facility of R 150 000 and a credit card facility of R 80 000. He only use the money from these facilities to buy in vehicles. Once he sell the vehicles he replace the money into the facilities and utilise the profit to build capital and for personal use. So the real truth of good debt and bad debt is not the type of debt you making, it is the purpose for what you use the credit for.
Bad debt: Is when you utilise a credit facility to purchase goods or services for gratification. The purchase does not offer any monetary return.
Good debt is when you utilise a credit facility to enhance your potential to earn income from the investment or enhance the potential of increasing your income.
“O”, investment in property can be turn into bad debt if you don’t know how to do it properly.