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Money Guy Show

"Should I Put 10% Down on My House?"

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Investing, Education, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Does it ever make sense to put a down payment of 10% or more on your first home? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kyle's question is up next. It says, how do you guys feel about copying target date

0:13.7

retirement funds to use as our own retirement plan? Following along with Vanguard or Fidelity

0:20.7

et cetera for your date so we can circumvent expense ratios? Or should we make our own

0:27.8

three fund? This is some creativity and I want to know what you guys think. I mean, I guess

0:34.5

you could. I guess you could start this one because you do such a good job of framing stuff,

0:41.2

but I'll let you because you have the closing points on it. But I think I think about we have

0:45.7

this client who we're like, man, you're at the station of life. You ought to hire a tax

0:49.8

preparer to make your life easier because you know, just be better if you take some of that off

0:55.3

your plate and focus. Then find out she was still doing her taxes, but then giving it to prepare

1:01.2

and then quizzing the CPA on how they prepared it. This is Kyle. This is the exact same thing.

1:07.0

And I want to remind you part of what you're doing in your journey is you're trying to allocate

1:12.6

time and resources to what can add value. If you're wasting your calories, if you're wasting your

1:18.5

mental horsepower on things that can be done that you're already paying for, it just seems really

1:25.3

really kind of wasteful. And that's what I'm thought of is what could that time that you're

1:31.0

allocating between trying to recreate because yes, it is true. You can go to Morningstar.com

1:35.5

you can go see what funds are making up the index target retirement fund. You can recreate it.

1:41.6

So then every year as the glide path takes you from super aggressive while you're in your 20s

1:46.7

all the way down to a pretty conservative portfolio by time you're in your 60s, I guess you could

1:51.7

every year go in there and see what percentage that it all changed in those five-year bands.

1:57.6

But why? Why would you do that? That's like you have a washing machine and a dryer and then

2:04.3

you're going and you're saying, you know what? Not using the dryer anymore. I'm going to go string

2:09.2

it up across the backyard. And I know some of you make I like the smell that my linen dry.

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