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Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

15 or 30 Year Mortgage?

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Investing, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A 15 or 30 year mortgage? That's the question facing Ilana and her husband as she says 15 and he says 30. Who's leaning in the right direction?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It is Tuesday, December 22nd. And yep, times

0:11.2

of ticking. I feel like it's such a weird week that I don't even know why I keep saying

0:15.5

times ticking. Times been ticking for a long time. It's like this crazy COVID pandemic

0:20.8

10 months into this, uh, maybe four or five months to go ish. I just found out one of my

0:28.2

neighbors who is a nurse, uh, was inoculated in the second day. He was walking around pretty

0:34.4

happy, I presume. But, uh, we're all going to be inoculated soon and then we're going

0:38.4

to be safe and then things are going to get back to normal. And I know we all cannot

0:43.1

wait for that. In the meantime, if you have all this extra time on your hands and you are

0:47.9

trying to figure out what to do with your financial life, we encourage you to contact

0:51.5

us, let us help you through the process. Send us an email, ask Jill at JillOnMoney.com,

0:58.4

ask Jill at JillOnMoney.com. And if you would like to join us on the program, let us know

1:03.8

that as well. That is what Tony did. Tony is on the line from Western New York. Tony,

1:11.3

a Buffalo Bills fan and congratulations. I hope because as we record this, the Buffalo

1:17.4

Bills are looking in decent shape. You feeling positive about your bills? Go Bills. Go

1:22.9

Bills. All right. Tell me what's going on and how we can help you out. I'm 45 soon to

1:28.5

be 46. My wife is a few years younger, 44. We have two children. We are looking to build

1:35.0

our, quote unquote, dream home situation is we currently own our home. We are debt free.

1:43.2

We make about 125 ish. We put about 26% of our income towards retirement. That's raw.

1:51.8

We own our own business. So we participate in a simple IRA and we're contributing to

1:56.0

our children's 529 bless. All right. That sounds good. We are looking to build a home.

2:03.0

When everything's all said and done, we're looking at about $525,000. We're putting

2:10.1

them down about $300,000. That includes the proceeds from the sale of our home. My

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