Should I Use A HELOC Because Everyone Else Is?
Ramsey Everyday Millionaires
Ramsey Network
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires, where we talk retirement, building wealth, |
| 0:10.5 | and outrageous generosity. |
| 0:12.5 | Today's question comes from Joshua and Indiana. |
| 0:19.2 | My wife and I are debt-free, including our house, becoming debt-free. |
| 0:22.9 | Has been important to us because of the spiritual component of not owing anyone anything. |
| 0:28.2 | The problem is that I don't know many people that are truly debt-free. |
| 0:32.7 | The people I know who are successful with money have taken out heat locks, unpaid for homes, |
| 0:36.6 | to invest the money in the stock market or real estate. |
| 0:40.2 | My financial advisor thinks that I'm silly to not leverage some form of debt with interest |
| 0:44.6 | rates being so low. |
| 0:46.6 | My wife and I are considering doing a home addition that would cost her on 100 to $125,000. |
| 0:51.9 | My advisor says that I should take out a $100,000 equity from take out $100,000 of equity |
| 0:57.7 | from my house, invest it, and use the earned interest to pay for the remodel. |
| 1:03.3 | This makes sense and sounds very appealing. |
| 1:05.7 | However, I'm fighting not to wanting to get back into debt. |
| 1:08.9 | I hear Dave talk about your study of millionaires and how people that got out of debt never |
| 1:14.8 | go back into debt again. |
| 1:16.4 | Unfortunately, I just don't see that done around me. |
| 1:19.4 | What am I missing? |
| 1:21.0 | A lot to unpack here, Rachel. |
| 1:23.2 | Man, where to begin, George? |
| 1:25.0 | So first of all, Joshua, way to go. |
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