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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Should I Consolidate My High-Interest Debt?

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Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.5838 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

Okay, so we're going up on, we started at 110,000, and we're at like 55 now, 55, 56.

0:15.0

We started with about 12 debts, and now we're down to about 5. We're working right now on a line of credit. When that one's gone, it's with the bank and it has a much lower interest rates than some of our other debts.

0:26.6

So what we're thinking is instead of just paying the minimum payment on the debt, just taking the line of credit and wiping one out so that we're paying a lower payment to have more margin.

0:36.6

Now, I mean, I know that that's transferring debt, but it also is increasing our margin,

0:41.4

and it's not opening a new line of credit.

0:43.2

My husband and I have had some debate on this, including if we were to do that,

0:47.5

should we do the car first because it has a bigger payment or anything like that?

0:52.2

And I looked on the Ramsey information, and I didn't find anything specifically with open lines

0:58.0

of credit.

0:58.3

Let me jump in.

0:59.7

Let me jump in to make sure I understand you before you go further because I don't want to lose

1:03.6

where you're at.

1:04.6

So you're saying you've got five debts left and one of them is a line of credit that's open.

1:09.2

And are you wanting to transfer the other four onto that line of credit?

1:12.8

Is that what you're saying?

1:14.6

That line of credit is $10,000.

1:16.9

We have $2,900 left on it.

1:19.5

All of our other debts are around $12,000 or $13,000.

1:23.6

So what we're hoping to do is kind of use it as a vehicle to get the payment much lower to be able to smack the amount faster.

1:30.1

So transferring your current debt by basically putting it into the line of credit like she's asking.

1:34.9

And we know it's still debt, but what we're hoping is that we can get more margin and more traction with it.

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