How Do You Figure Out Your Net Worth?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Mary has a question for you guys. |
| 0:10.4 | When you calculate your net worth, would you advise to include the present appraised |
| 0:15.1 | value of things like cars, especially the non-daily commute car? |
| 0:19.7 | And then would you advise to include things like points, jewelry, luxury bags, etc. |
| 0:25.8 | How do you factor these into your net worth statement? |
| 0:28.9 | And which of these things do you not factor in your net worth statement? |
| 0:32.4 | So here is the beautiful thing about a net worth statement. |
| 0:35.2 | It's like a snowflake. |
| 0:36.9 | It's unique. |
| 0:37.9 | It's yours. |
| 0:38.9 | You get to design it and you get to do it the way that you want to. |
| 0:42.3 | So what's the right way to do it? |
| 0:44.2 | I don't know that we can exactly say what's the right way. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm going to share what you do and I'll share what I do. |
| 0:48.5 | I'll share mine. |
| 0:49.5 | For real estate assets, I like to value them at market cost. |
| 0:54.6 | At the price I paid it, purchase price, not at market cost. |
| 0:58.4 | I want to stay really, really conservative. |
| 0:59.7 | I don't want my net worth to go up by whatever amount, simply because the value of the |
| 1:05.0 | hole that I'm not going to sell happened to go up that amount. |
| 1:08.0 | So it's really, really conservative. |
| 1:09.8 | You asked about present like appraised value on cars. |
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