"23 I know a number of people who invested their money, including in businesses, who have more money than you'll ever see and the reason is they didn't get sucked into the mortgage trap."
No doubt some have been really successful at it and good luck to them but percentage wise in the population they are a very small percentage and the best way to secure your long term future for retirement is to own your own home as rent will become a very big cost when you are on relatively smaller incomes being provided to you in retirement. For the vast majority this will be a big difference in being able to live comfortably in retirement or not.
