“I’m One Million Dollars in Debt - What Should I Do?”
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right? |
| 0:02.0 | All right, you ready to kick it off with Julia's question? |
| 0:09.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:10.0 | She says I'm 33 years old and I have over 1 million dollars in debt and I'm feeling overwhelmed |
| 0:20.7 | understandably Julia I'm a doctor so I have about $200,000 of student loans at |
| 0:26.0 | 6%, with an $800,000 mortgage at 7.5% and $3,000 left in credit card debt. |
| 0:34.0 | Clarification, $800,000 mortgage with what interest rate? |
| 0:38.0 | 7.5%. |
| 0:41.0 | She goes on to say my mortgage payment is right at 25% of our gross income and our |
| 0:46.6 | combined household income is around 270,000 dollars. |
| 0:51.0 | Besides the mortgage we've kept our spending down drastically, |
| 0:56.1 | so I know we can tackle this quickly, |
| 0:58.2 | but I am just not sure where to start. |
| 1:01.6 | Any advice? Well, one, Jill Jill you got a bunch of big numbers here right? I mean obviously you were young you're |
| 1:07.9 | dealing in the realm and the world of big numbers right when I hear $200,000 in student loan debt, I hear $800,000 in mortgage debt, I hear |
| 1:17.8 | $270,000 of income, yeah that's a lot. That's a lot going on. Brian, I would like to start this off if you're okay with that. |
| 1:25.6 | She's trying to figure out how do I tackle this. Number one, very first thing that I, well, I can't say number one, I got to go back to the beginning. We got to start the financial order of operations because they can't say number one I got to go back to the beginning we got to start the |
| 1:33.5 | financial order of operations because it can't be I already had it ready |
| 1:36.2 | be number one you got to go to the financial order of operations because she said |
| 1:40.1 | one thing in there that I heard that was just super annoying she said that she's got three3,000 to credit card debt. |
| 1:44.8 | Now, and I was like, one of these is not like the others |
| 1:47.8 | when I heard everything else. |
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