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Originally Posted by BigRichard
I asked this before but I think I might take a bit of a risk here possibly. We have a very substantial chunk of change I have sitting in a 2% savings account that we got from selling our house and plan to use it for a down payment on our next house. I don't think we will be buying really soon here so I am really considering dropping it into stocks/index funds if the market drops much more and riding it out for a little while. It could bring in a chunk of money. Would you do it?
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I've been going through a similar scenario where I've had a large amount of $$$ sitting in my savings account since summer last year with the intention of it being a down payment on our next home. Super Bowl Sunday is when the housing inventory really heats up here, so we chose to let it sit ~6 months in savings. Our place is currently under contract and we just went under contract on our new home that is everything we want and more. That said, the difference in 25K below our budget was substantial in home/neighborhood quality compared to going 25K above our budget. So in hindsight, could I have made a litte more money spending 6 months in market, maybe, but the risk of losing and having to settle for a lower tier home would not have been worth it to me.