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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Parents Took Out A HELOC To Help Me With A Car Repair

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:06.7

So my car engine went out last October, and it took a few months to get my vehicle back

0:12.8

because it actually broke down when I was evacuating for the hurricane.

0:16.9

And in the meantime, my parents floated a rental car, and then I ended up losing my job.

0:23.4

Yeah.

0:24.2

So they said my parents ended up helping out, and what they ended up doing was taking out a heat lock on their house to cover that and a few other things.

0:33.6

And I wasn't aware of this until afterwards.

0:37.5

But they're the kind of people where strings are attached.

0:43.5

And I'm just trying to figure out if I should be debt snowballing this,

0:47.7

which would make it the second and the last debt to be paid off,

0:50.8

or if I should be prioritizing it because it's on their house. That's a great question.

0:56.4

How much is it? How much is this HELOC? So my portion of it is about 11,500. That right there,

1:06.3

what you just said tells me all I needed to know. 11,500, just for kicks and giggles, tell me how much the other portion is and who got that?

1:19.1

I don't know because they didn't tell me.

1:23.0

Do you want to know what I think?

1:26.2

Very briefly.

1:27.4

I think they wanted to take out a helock, and I think you gave

1:31.0

them a good excuse to do it. And I think I would treat this like the IRS and put at the very top

1:36.3

and pay this off as fast as humanly possible. Uh-huh. How much are you putting towards debt every month?

1:42.7

So I actually just found you guys a little over a month ago, and I just finished Baby Step

1:47.4

One.

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