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Chapter 1: What should I consider before selling stocks to pay off debt?
Live from the Pod's moving and storage studio, this is The Ramsey Show, where we help you win in your life, specifically your money life, your work life, and your relationship life. I'm Ken Coleman, joined by my colleague Rachel Cruz, and we're here for you this hour. It is your show, America, so what are your questions? What do you got? We always love having that conversation with you.
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Chapter 2: How do Fed interest rate hikes affect my personal finances?
There it is. We've never done this before. There it is. You'll see a lot of that on the Smart Money Happy Hour podcast with George Campbell, our colleague. A lot of cheers going on over there. A lot of fun times over there. We should bring some more here. We should. I wonder... What do I got to say to James Childs, our fearless producer, to have a little bit of that come on over here?
Chapter 3: What strategies can I use to save for a house while managing debt?
I don't know. We'll have to talk about that on many commercial breaks. But let's get going. Monifa is up first in Washington, D.C. Monifa, how can we help?
Hi, thanks for taking my call, Kent and Rachel. My question is, I recently purchased a new car because my car died on me. I wasn't expecting to buy one for at least another two to three years. And, um, so now I have, um, a bit of debt and my question is, uh, so I have the option of paying that debt off using stocks, but, um, right now the market isn't doing that well.
And so, uh, I would, I would be taking not a loss, but I would kind of break even.
Chapter 4: How can I navigate feeling stuck in my career?
And I was just wondering if I should sell the stocks to pay that. Oh, the other thing, um, is I earned dividends on that stock monthly. So I get about $200 a month off of that, and I'm not sure if I should sell the stocks or if I should just pay it off by adding extra payments to the principal.
Yeah, for sure. So how much do you owe on the car? $24. Okay, and if you sold it today, how much could you sell it for?
I'm not sure. Okay. I mean, it's new.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of rising interest rates on loans?
I don't think that... I looked that up, and what I saw across the board was to hold off for a year because I bought it brand new, so I think it would depreciate too much within that first year to make any money on selling it.
Well, yeah, it's probably worth less than $24. I'm just figuring out what big of a difference it is. How much do you make a year? What's your income? It's $103. Okay. What other debt do you have? That's it.
Chapter 6: How does inflation impact my monthly budget?
It's just a car. Okay. I mean, honestly, you have a great income. I mean, if I were you, I would just buckle down and pay it off. You could, I mean, we always say to cash out any non-retirement funds that you have. So how much in stocks do you have?
Um, the ones, uh, well, the one that I would, that I could sell because it's up a little bit would be, there's 31,000 in that one. Um, the others are down. How much are in there? How much are in those though?
Chapter 7: What should I do if I feel overwhelmed by financial decisions?
Oh, um, the second one has about 7,000 in it. So 38.
So 38 total is what you have in stock.
And are those two single stocks? Yeah. Okay. So if I were you, and again, you haven't quote unquote lost anything. Yes, you may, the return you're going to break even because yeah, like you're saying about the market, but you technically have not lost anything. So if I were you, I would cash both of these out. I would pay off the car and then I would put the remaining money.
Chapter 8: How can I build a solid emergency fund while paying off debt?
And again, there may be some tax implications to this, but I would take the rest and either use that cash to fund if you have. Do you have an emergency fund? Do you just have cash on hand? I have an emergency fund, but it only has $2,000 in it. Okay, so I would cash out this and I'd pay it off and put the rest in an emergency fund and I would put the rest in that $2,000.
And then from there, Monifa, I would never buy single stocks again. If you have a Roth IRA, 401k, that's going to be your next step. is to fund 15% of your income into those things. But regardless of debt or not, I wouldn't have single stocks anyway.
So I would tell you to cash them out regardless of where you were, but now you're gonna have that lump sum and you can use that to your benefit to just pay off this car and then turn around and fund an emergency fund. And then you'll be, I mean, really in a great spot in baby steps four through six at the point of what we teach. So that's what I would do, Monique, if I woke up in your shoes.
Okay.
Do it. Okay. Monifa, it's going to feel so much better.
It is. The single stock game, honestly, it's exhausting, and majority of people don't come out ahead. Now, we tell people, if you have everything paid off, if you're on baby step seven and less than 10% of your net worth, you want to dabble in other stuff, that's great. But where you are, Monifa, this is really great money to be used to get you out of debt and
to have cash in the bank in case something happens. It just puts you in a really great, solid financial spot to build that strong foundation financially.
I totally agree. That's what I would do. I totally agree. And you're not worried about the roller coaster anymore with the single stocks. You get into a good investment strategy. And I would recommend, Monifa, that you go to our website, ramsaysolutions.com, and we've got a section there called SmartVestor Pro. Now, these are men and women that are trained financial advisors that
They will teach you the process for investing that we endorse and that we teach. And you're going to have a much better feeling about your investment going forward. But this is an opportunity for you to cut your losses as they are. But the real benefit, as Rachel said, is you come away with this with a paid-for car.
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