How Long Should it Take to Pay Off Your Car?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, moving on to Ankeeta's question, why would it not be better to take a car loan |
| 0:14.4 | for 60 to 65 months instead of 36 months to reduce your monthly payment so we can contribute |
| 0:22.0 | more to the Roth IRA or 401K? |
| 0:25.6 | And she says, I'm not buying a fancy car just a regular car. |
| 0:29.4 | So first of all, could you all tell everyone what your car buying rules are and then speak |
| 0:35.9 | to Ankeeta's question? |
| 0:37.3 | Brian, you want to talk a little about the car buying rules? |
| 0:39.2 | Because I got a story to share that I think it'd be helpful. |
| 0:41.4 | I'll set up the car buying rules and, and, but we'll probably give you the context on |
| 0:46.0 | why, what's the why on every one of these? |
| 0:48.6 | First of all, 20%. |
| 0:49.6 | We want that to, that's what, that's the 20 is 238. |
| 0:52.4 | So pay attention to these numbers, 238. |
| 0:54.6 | 20% down. |
| 0:55.6 | Make sure you got some skin in the game. |
| 0:58.1 | Three years. |
| 0:59.1 | That's the amurization, meaning 36 months is if you're going to have, if you can't pay |
| 1:02.7 | cash and you're having to finance this, we don't want that amurization really beyond |
| 1:06.8 | three years. |
| 1:08.3 | And then the last part, the 8%, if you take your gross income for the annual income, |
| 1:14.1 | multiply it by 8%. |
| 1:16.1 | You can quickly see if you divide that by 12, what the monthly payment should be. |
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