Did I Make A Mistake Financially Helping My Daughter?
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.5 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.8 | It's our daughter's house that I'm wondering about. |
| 0:10.1 | She got divorced about a year ago and she got the house, but she also got the mortgage with |
| 0:16.7 | it. |
| 0:17.7 | But there's plenty of, there's about half of it. She had good assets, you know, half the value. |
| 0:24.6 | But she had to refinance it for half of it, and she really can't afford it, so we've |
| 0:30.5 | been helping her, and just wondering if we did the wrong thing, probably co-signing for it |
| 0:35.2 | so she could qualify. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, you co-signed for the mortgage |
| 0:38.6 | we did yes for the refinance yep and you're helping her because she she can't afford the payments |
| 0:47.3 | right now she's going to school and working part-time yes so how much are you are you guys giving her |
| 0:52.1 | every month? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, it varied. |
| 0:59.6 | I mean, sometimes she'd come up with the full mortgage, got close to Christmas there. |
| 1:05.3 | We didn't even see a payment through on then, because, so it's kind of been biting us a little bit there. |
| 1:06.6 | And she's working full-time? |
| 1:11.7 | Birt time, and going to school for teaching right now too. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay, what is she doing for work? |
| 1:18.7 | She's working in a school setting as a paraprofessional, they call them. |
| 1:20.8 | Okay, so let's fast forward. |
| 1:22.4 | She's done with school. |
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