Can I Use 0% Financing for a Home Repair?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Next up is a question from Chris. He says, how do you feel about using 0% financing |
| 0:14.0 | for a major home repair, like HVAC, |
| 0:16.8 | even if you have the cash to pay it? |
| 0:18.7 | Knowing cash is paying 4 to 5%, |
| 0:21.8 | plus general added flexibility. |
| 0:25.0 | All right, here's where my initial thought goes, Brian. |
| 0:31.0 | I want you to encra, like, what are your feelings |
| 0:36.1 | on using chainsaws, right? My feeling on using a chainsaw is that it can be effective. |
| 0:41.7 | It can allow you to accomplish something you're trying to |
| 0:45.0 | accomplish but if you're not careful with it it can hurt you. It can hurt you really |
| 0:50.1 | bad and I don't think everybody should use chainsaws. There are some very |
| 0:54.4 | specific people out there that can be trusted with a chainsaw and can use a |
| 0:58.6 | chainsaw effectively and can make that a tool that allows them to accomplish whatever is they're trying to accomplish in a more efficient manner. |
| 1:07.0 | There are some people out there that can't use chainsaws either because they'll get carried away, they don't have attention to detail, |
| 1:13.3 | they'll get too aggressive, that you know they're not in a place right now |
| 1:17.8 | where they ought to be wielding a chainsaw, they should still be figuring out |
| 1:21.8 | how some smaller cutlery works. |
| 1:25.0 | I think that that's what you have to assess for yourself. |
| 1:27.5 | Where am I in my financial journey? |
| 1:30.0 | And based on my current financial track record and my current financial behavior, |
| 1:35.0 | am I someone who could consider doing this? |
| 1:38.5 | Because if done incorrectly, it can be bad. |
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