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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Hey, I really need help. I need |
0:09.0 | help with my financial discipline. I moved my back home this year. My parents told me that I have |
0:15.6 | this year to fix my finances. I make $105,000 a year and totally'm totally in debt $121,000 in debt. |
0:24.1 | They allow me to pay a rent of $400 a month for the rest of the year for me to get back on my feet. |
0:31.0 | What's the debt, man? |
0:34.5 | What is the debt of? |
0:35.9 | Yeah. |
0:50.0 | It's $8,000 in credit card, $37,000 in an auto loan, $57,000 on student loans, and $19,000 in that line of credit. |
0:54.0 | What'd you buy with the line of credit and the credit cards? |
1:03.3 | So the line of credit was to consolidate my debt from my divorce because I got assigned the debt because I made substantially more than her. |
1:06.1 | And then the credit card is just debt that I've been carrying for the last probably 10 years. |
1:11.7 | When was the divorce final? |
1:15.8 | Five years ago. |
1:19.2 | Okay. |
1:19.8 | And so you've not done anything about cleaning up the mess from five years ago yet? |
1:24.4 | I have mine. |
1:26.2 | That's why my discipline has been absurd. When did you buy the |
1:30.0 | $37,000 car? So that was actually even worse. What happened was I actually bought a $72,000 car. |
1:38.0 | And within a month, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to afford it. So I took it back to |
1:41.7 | the dealership because my monthly payment was going to be $1,400 a month and I was able to get into another Mercedes that was, I could |
1:49.3 | roll that negative equity to, which was $56,000 and so far I only owe $36,000, but my monthly payment |
1:55.6 | on the car is $800 a month. So you owe $37,000 now and the car is worth what today? |
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