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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I’ve Put Myself Into A Pickle, File Bankruptcy?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today uh yeah uh i just kind of got

0:08.2

myself into a little bit of a pickle and kind of you know entertain different ideas of how to get

0:14.1

myself out here okay so i got myself a he lock back in uh you, good old days of 2020 with the good rates.

0:22.6

I got my house loan down to a 2.375 on a 20-year loan. We only have 16-year loan left.

0:31.1

But my HELOC is now sitting at 100,000 at 9.5%. So what I've done with that was I actually quit my job and kind of start up my own thing,

0:43.0

doing a service company.

0:45.1

So I took some of that heat off to help me get started with that business.

0:49.7

And the business has been going for about two years now.

0:53.4

We kind of, you know, we're plateauing

0:55.5

because of this interest rate, paying, you know, $900, almost $900 a month and interest only

1:01.8

on that heat lock. So what I've done is I've reached out last year to a capital with a credit

1:08.5

kind of type of company. You know, they got me about $50,000 in credit

1:12.2

cards through the business. We did a balance transfer at zero percent.

1:17.3

You keep thinking debt is the next answer to get you out of debt. You understand that?

1:22.3

I know. You're correct. Yeah, and I got to get out of this cycle before, you know.

1:28.3

So what is your next step? If you didn't call today, what were you about to do?

1:33.8

Get another credit card and transfer more over, trying to keep that repetitiveness, unfortunately.

1:40.0

I've tried to look around to see small business loans or even higher percentage than my

1:44.6

HELOC.

1:45.0

Josh, zoom out.

1:47.0

Yeah.

1:47.2

Have an out-of-body experience.

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