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Radical Personal Finance

717-Friday Q&A: HELOCs, Deferring Mortgage, Investing for 18-Year-Olds, Moving to the Country, Voluntary Furloughs, Etc.

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday! On today's Q&A we cover:

  • 1:23 - Should I take the HELOC money out and put it into my bank account?
  • 4:57 - Should I defer my mortgage payments if possible?
  • 6:30 - How does this economic crisis affect my FIRE plans?
  • 16:52 - What should an 18-year-old do with $56,000 in his bank?
  • 32:49 - Should we leave our high-income job to fulfill our dream of moving to the country?
  • 48:24 - How should I give away $40,000 to $50,000 per year effectively?
  • 1:19:20 - Should I take a voluntary furlough from my job?
  • 1:24:12 - How should I set up my new business structure?
  • 1:40:45 - How do I choose between two good job offers?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today in Radical Personal Finance a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement

0:24.3

you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan for financial freedom

0:28.2

in 10 years or less.

0:29.8

Today is Friday, April 10, 2020.

0:32.8

And today we do live Q&A.

0:35.3

I do these shows every Friday

0:36.4

when I can arrange the technology,

0:38.1

sit in my command center and open up the phone lines.

0:40.5

Works just like Call and Talk Radio.

0:42.4

A bunch of call

0:42.7

on the line they call in and we chat and then you get to hear it.

0:45.6

If you would like to join me for one of these Friday Q&A shows, I would invite you to become a supporter of the show at Patreon.com slash radical personal finance.

0:59.0

Again, you could sign up to become a supporter of the show atreon.com slash radical personal finance.

1:04.8

These Friday Q&A calls are available to patrons of the show and thank you to the many of you

1:08.6

who support the show there. It really helps me tremendously. I really am very grateful. We begin with let's see it looks like

1:15.6

finished I got to close the music there we go close the music. Tommy welcome to show

1:19.6

how can I serve you today sir? Hey I got your name Joshua just had a quick couple questions regarding

1:25.4

that whole equity law and credits. Okay go ahead. So we have a $60,000 available helock that is basically 0% loan as it stands as long as we don't put it in our bank account.

1:39.0

And then we'd obviously extra interest, whatever that variable percent would be if we tap into that.

1:44.8

At what market indicators should we watch for to see if we need to put that money out of the

1:50.6

standby and then into our bank account and what would cause that to not be available funds.

1:57.2

What would you do with the money if you put it in your bank account?

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