Money Matters Presentation
Your New Loan
Money Matters

Because of the increase in "market value" for the house for which you paid $120,000, your banker has offered to make you a real estate loan of $250,000. I will describe the entries for that transaction entity by entity (or column by column.)

Your Bank

  1. You sign a note obliging you to repay $250,000 in the future (we will ignore interest for now.) enters that note as an asset in the account . (Debit -- use of funds).
  2. makes a credit entry in its account (specifically for you). This promise to pay you creates a liability for the bank and the source of funds for the real estate loan.

You

  1. You record this transaction in your books by first making a debit entry to . For you this entry reflects your current use of the money by leaving it in the bank.
  2. Remember that to get this money you created a liability for yourself. You record that as a credit (source) in your Real Estate Loan account.

Other Bank

does not get involved in this transaction.

 

These simple entries show what happens when a bank "makes money." You commit to pay the bank $250,000 in the future, with interest (not recorded here), and they make an entry on their books that becomes money for you.

With this real estate loan you and your bank have created new money.

NOTE: I have added to this table a section at the bottom that keeps track of Net Inflation/Deflation.

Also, I have highlighted the latest entry ; as we progress through these examples this highlight should help you separate the latest entry from earlier entries.

 

But, you must payoff your existing real estate loan with the .