This Is Clark Griswold in Real Life!
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.2 | So we've gotten ourselves into a situation, and we're wondering what's the best way to get out of it. |
| 0:12.2 | So we are looking to see, is it makes sense to pull 401K to pay off a he lock. |
| 0:19.0 | How old are you? |
| 0:20.6 | I just turned 40 on Saturday. |
| 0:23.9 | Happy birthday. |
| 0:25.0 | Happy big birthday. That's a big milestone. |
| 0:27.2 | And also, please never do this. |
| 0:29.9 | I know. |
| 0:30.8 | Happy birthday. Don't do it. |
| 0:33.3 | I understand you've got this big helock and you're looking for some kind of shortcut to go, how do we get out of this helock? |
| 0:39.8 | But what you're doing is robbing your future self with penalties and fees on top of that. |
| 0:46.4 | I would just treat it as a baby step six situation, Jillian. |
| 0:51.6 | I would, because how much do you owe on your house mortgage-wise? |
| 0:55.1 | So mortgage-wise, we're like $4.50, which it's only 2.5%, but the He-Lock is like 8.5% |
| 1:01.5 | the payment is chilling us. Yeah. Yeah, how much you guys make a year? |
| 1:06.1 | Which sounds like a lot. It is a lot. Around $350,000. Okay. Yep. It is a lot. But when you're drowning in |
| 1:14.1 | payments all over the place, it doesn't feel like a lot. Yeah. We're cutting back as much as we can. |
| 1:19.3 | And obviously, we need to make changes. What was the HELOC for? A house remodel in a pool. |
| 1:24.9 | As one does. It's the American way. Okay. Any other debt? We have a credit card. I have a |
| 1:31.4 | business that I just started, so I have like $18,000 in a credit card. But other than that, |
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