Loans can kill or make. I have a chap who was earning a net of 79K in 2011. He had a loan of 650K where he was repaying about Kes23K per month. He then moved to greener pastures and the net moved to 107K.
The guy saw the opportunity to grow the loan and he was offered 1M (of course this was like 350 top-up). The repayment now went to 33K. That was in Aug 2011.
Then in Jan this year, the bank reviewed the rates in response to movement in CBK rates to 19%. This means the monthly repayment went up to 43K. In the meantime the guy had acquired a plot of 1.5M. That was good investment of course but lets analyse this further...
Since inflation had in 2011 pushed up the costs of most of the basic things, the net after loans was not just 64K and the guy was hardly able to cope with his loan repayment and other house needs.
Currently he is surviving on top-up loans and hardly able to save or do anything progressive.
@ Miser; banks are not the best financing option but if must just be ready for an adjustment of rates to like 30%. This means you have to keep a buffer just in case.
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1) Land Speculation.
2) Stocks.
3) Taxis
4) Matatus
5) Mini-Supermarkets
6) Loaning money as a shylock
7) Etc
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