I'm Broke And Overextended On My Home
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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today i'm just trying to get advice |
| 0:08.2 | i'm uh kind of stuck financially i purchased uh my home about 400 000 beginning of 2024 |
| 0:17.6 | with the interest rates um it's not really affordable. I thought that I could refinance, |
| 0:25.3 | but it's really, I make a good salary, but I'm kind of living paycheck to paycheck, |
| 0:32.4 | unable to fade. The debt that I have is kind of just there hanging around, not going anywhere, |
| 0:40.4 | and I just want to get out of this house, or I don't really have a solution to remedy |
| 0:47.6 | this poor financial decision that I made for myself. |
| 0:52.6 | Okay. |
| 0:53.2 | Lacey, how much is your house payment every month? |
| 0:58.0 | 3,100. |
| 0:59.6 | 3,100. |
| 1:00.2 | And how much are you bringing home? |
| 1:04.1 | After taxes, I bring home about, let's see, 56. |
| 1:12.9 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, yeah, you can't afford this house. |
| 1:19.2 | I mean, how, yeah, I mean, that leaves you, yeah, |
| 1:22.2 | $2,000-ish dollars per month. |
| 1:25.2 | How much are your debt payments on everything else? |
| 1:28.6 | Meet every dollar budgeters Christy and Steve. Their life is chaotic, but their money is simple |
| 1:34.1 | because they budget with every dollar. Budgeting with the spreadsheet took a ton of time. |
| 1:39.6 | But now it's every dollar. I can do a budget in five minutes. And tracking purchases is just as simple. |
| 1:47.7 | It's so freeing to know exactly where your money is going. It just takes that stress out of the |
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