I'm $70,000 Upside Down On My House!
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.4 | I live in Orlando, and I have a pretty good job, but I have a potential career change and unique job opportunity that would take me out of state. |
| 0:16.9 | But it would actually be a pay decrease. |
| 0:19.0 | And another big problem is that I'm severely underwater on my mortgage. |
| 0:23.9 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:25.1 | Oh. |
| 0:25.5 | You're not behind on payments. |
| 0:27.7 | No, no, no. |
| 0:28.7 | Okay, so how are you underwater? |
| 0:30.5 | Like upside down? |
| 0:32.2 | Upside down, yes, sorry. |
| 0:33.4 | You owe more than the house is worth. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, quite a bit. |
| 0:37.4 | How did we get here? |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, houses. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, so I bought this house about two years ago, and the market was really high. |
| 0:46.1 | And I moved to the whole home buying thing, so I'll probably overpaid for it. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.5 | And then, yeah, houses in my area, just, they're really not selling well. |
| 0:57.8 | The prices have gone way down since I've bought. So you're underwater on paper right now, |
| 1:03.5 | as if if you sold today, you would take a big loss and you need to come up with the difference. |
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