"You Have No Mortgage, Pay Off Your Debt!"
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.6 | I had a question about converting a home equity line of credit over to like a 12 or 15-year mortgage |
| 0:14.0 | because we're not making any progress. |
| 0:16.5 | We're just paying interest only right now and will for the foreseeable future. |
| 0:20.2 | Okay, because of the payment |
| 0:21.3 | and that's what you guys can afford or what? We pay a ridiculous amount for private school |
| 0:29.7 | education for four kids and that's kind of locked down our monthly, I guess, ability to make any progress. |
| 0:39.9 | How much is the HELOC and how much is the tuition for the four kids? |
| 0:45.5 | Sure. |
| 0:46.1 | So the interest-only payment or how much do we owe on the HELC? |
| 0:50.5 | Why don't you tell me both? |
| 0:51.6 | What's the total amount and how much do you pay every month? |
| 1:03.0 | Sure. So we owe $65,2008 and then our minimum, our interest only payment each month is right around $450. It kind of fluctuates because it's a variable rate. |
| 1:05.0 | And then our monthly payment for private school is $3,704. |
| 1:11.9 | And what's your income between you and your wife? |
| 1:16.0 | Sure. |
| 1:16.7 | So it just changed. |
| 1:18.1 | My wife just went back to work this year. |
| 1:20.4 | So she'd been out of work, raising the kids, not out of work. |
| 1:24.0 | Geez, how insensitive. |
| 1:26.0 | No, she was at home with the kids and just went back to work a month ago. |
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