As I recall, and the post above indicates, I closed on my house as a first time home buyer around February 5, 2020, about 2 weeks before that lady at the CDC said that COVID spreading in the US seemed ‘inevitable’ around February 20th.
Of course, after COVID, the estimated price of the house has gone way up due to inflation, while my mortgage amount stayed the same. I also bought a car a few months before that.
That first time home buyer house closing, in retrospect, seems like perfect timing, to me, to benefit from inflation. Within days in a period of over 25 years of adulthood.
How did I do it? Certainly not with my own intellect. A psychiatrist might call that, and many other things I’ve been doing and experiencing lately, big coincidences.
So, I guess I’ve been benefitting from inflation. Some other asset holders have been making more money than me financially, I think.