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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing

How to Handle Auto Loans

DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing

Bleav + Quint Tatro & Daniel Czulno, CFP® a passionate look at everything money from budgeting, savings, investing, stocks, bonds, debt. For those that enjoy Dave Ramsey, Jill On Money, Smart Money, BiggerPockets it’s worth a listen!

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4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode Quint and Daniel discuss how to pay off car loans and if its a good idea to borrow from a 401(K).

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0:00.0

Hey there, this is Daniel. Thanks for listening to DIY Money. Now, if you haven't already, be sure to give us a five-star review so your friends know that this is a show that they can learn from. Follow us on Instagram at DIY.money. Now, enjoy this episode.

0:21.8

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to another edition of D.I.

0:27.9

Money.

0:29.4

DiA.

0:30.6

Okay, Daniel, let's get right to it.

0:33.0

We got a doozy.

0:34.1

We got a doozy from Brian.

0:36.5

Brian, hit us with your question. What do you got?

0:39.2

DIY. Hi, DIY Money. This is Brian from Jacksonville, Florida. And my question is somewhat of a two-part

0:46.9

question. We've taken care of all of our bad debt that you've talked about. No credit card, no student

0:53.0

loans. The last piece of debt we have

0:55.7

is my wife's car payment, which we're currently paying 3.5%. Last year, our 401k

1:03.3

returned about 12 or 13%. I wanted to know your thoughts if we should continue, obviously obviously paying car payment and then putting extra to it but really focus in a lot of money to our 401k and the second part is how do you feel about taking loans out against your 401k to perhaps pay a future mortgage down payment.

1:28.3

I know you pay a higher interest rate, but you pay yourself back.

1:32.7

Do you advise that or would you stay away from it?

1:36.2

I appreciate all of your insight.

1:37.9

Take care, guys.

1:40.0

Okay.

1:41.1

That was more like a four-part question, Brian.

1:43.6

Come on.

1:44.7

You gave us the two-parter and then you went into a couple other scenarios.

1:48.7

Brian, you ruin everything.

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