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Should I Refinance My Mortgage?

Money Guy Show

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

Education, Retirement, Moneyadvice, Investing, Savingmoney, Personalfinance, Business

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"With the Fed meeting today, and projections saying that they will drop rates a half percent, at what point should I pull the trigger and refinance?"

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Transcript

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0:00.0

But we do have some more good questions. Are you ready for another good question?

0:10.0

Sure. All right, Big Mo has a question for you.

0:12.5

He says, what's better in retirement, mortgage or rent?

0:17.9

I'm 58 on Step 7 of the FOO, but recently divorced.

0:21.8

I have a 1.2 million in my Roth IRA, in my IRA Roth and

0:27.1

HSA but need to figure out my living situation for retirement in seven to nine years

0:32.0

so he's considering mortgage versus rent.

0:35.0

I have a big question. Can't go. Do you like where you live?

0:41.0

Because that's somebody who's about to retire,

0:43.1

because a lot of people, when I talk,

0:44.5

and one of the first things when we have people come into the office

0:47.5

and talk to us is like, I have multiple clients

0:51.4

that move to different states, they retire in different places.

0:53.9

I think about my own neighborhood is people from all over the country all over the world.

0:58.1

I mean I think of all the South Africans that live in my neighborhood.

1:01.2

So I'd ask Big Mo, where do you want to live because that is also

1:05.8

timing if you go to money.com slash resources we have our home buying checklist and

1:11.3

one of the first things you'll see on the home buying

1:13.4

checklist is this this needs to be a seven-year decision and I would say with where

1:19.2

we've been where housing prices went up you know in some parts of the market 50, 60, 70%.

1:26.8

I don't know that you can count on that housing is going to continue to run up at a

1:30.8

super fast pace.

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