This is not necessarily true, if you are in a hot realestate market and all signs point to a 10 - 20 % increase in housing prices, you are better paying the
minimum on your student loan and investing in a new home /
condo.
Fundrise just paid back investors for their contributions to a
condo conversion — a Dupont Circle project that turned a rowhouse into three
condos... For a
minimum investment of $ 5,000 — as opposed to the typical
minimum of at least $ 100,000 --[investors] received a 12 percent annualized rate of return
on their contributions in just nine months.