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Chapter 1: What financial mistakes did Selena make when buying her house?
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So we'll be talking about that and your life and your money. Open phones at 888-825-5225. We're going to start this hour with Selena in Orlando. Hi, Selena. How are you?
Hi, I'm doing well. I'm really excited to be talking to you.
Chapter 2: How should I handle my higher mortgage payments while rebuilding retirement?
Great. How can we help?
So I recently, I'm married. I'm 28. I live in Orlando and our household income is $155,000. And we just had a baby and we were living in a really small condo and kind of needed more space really quickly. So I withdrew all of my 403B, about $26,000 to cover the down payment and the closing costs. I think when we sell our current home, I'll get about $26,000 to $30,000 back.
But now I'm a new listener and realize I'm kind of going, didn't follow any of the baby steps. And I'm just wondering what advice like you would give us in terms of having a bit of a higher mortgage payment now and then also needing to kind of rebuild retirement or starting a bit from scratch.
Chapter 3: What should I do if my husband's union might go on strike?
Ouch. Well, it's not going to do with the baby steps. You've screwed yourself. Um, you've really made yourself a mess. Um, because if you do not, uh, read deposit the 26,000 within 60 days of the time you took it out, you're going to be charged your tax rate plus a 10% penalty on this. And so you're going to lose 40% of that money in taxes and penalties.
Okay.
Translation, $13,000. Okay. $12,000 is going to government.
Chapter 4: What is the best way to combine finances in a blended family?
Okay. So when you sell your house, you need to set aside enough to cover the mess you made when your tax bill comes next year. Okay. And then the rest of that money will be used for wherever you are, I guess, in your situation. But, yeah, you borrowed money for a down payment at 40% interest is what you did.
Okay. Yeah, I was hoping, like, with the taxing, like, we'll have a baby on there, and this is the first year we'll be filing, like, married together.
You can't offset this level of mess. Babies don't cover this. Okay.
Chapter 5: How can I determine how much I can spend on housing?
Not even close. So this is, yeah, you really stepped in it. So, oh, my gosh. How long ago did you pull the money out?
Let's see. We're in July, so maybe about a month ago. But the house that we're having built won't be done until end of September, and so I'm trying to time the selling of this house with the closing of the next house.
Why did you pull the money out if you haven't closed on your other house?
I needed the money for the down payment. So you put the down payment first for them to start building.
Chapter 6: Should I view my student loans as a lump sum of debt?
It's not a down payment. It's a deposit.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, so I had to put 5% of the cost of the house. I had to give that to them in order for them to start building it.
Yeah, and then if your house doesn't sell, now you've got two house payments and you're double screwed.
Well, other houses in the town have been going for like $30,000 more than what I originally paid for it, and so I'm hoping... to get like a bigger, when this house does sell.
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What steps can I take to avoid being house poor?
If interest rates tick up a point by September, by the time you get your house on the market and the market freezes like a deer in the headlights, you've really messed yourself up. I'm scared for you, honey. I'm scared. You guys have done, you guys got completely impulsive and you impulse to house and it may have made yourself a mess potentially.
I hope you get out of it with your skin intact, but I'm not positive you're going to. So anyway, what can we do from here? I assume you gave them $26,000, right?
I gave them $16,000.
Okay, so you have $10,000.
Yeah, and then I had savings already, so I have about $17,000 in savings.
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Chapter 8: What are the consequences of impulsive financial decisions?
Plus $10,000?
No, $17,000 in total. I had $7,000 already.
Oh, you had $7,000 in savings. Okay, all right. And you don't have any other money?
No. I mean, no.
Do you have investments of any kind that are not mutual funds or that are not retirement accounts?
Maybe three months ago I opened up a 529 for my daughter.
How much is in it?
Probably about $3,000. Okay.
Because every dollar we can put back in that 403B before the 60-day mark is not going to be taxed or penalized. And so I'm going to scrape nickels out of the corner of the couch and try to get as close to 26,000 back in there because every dollar you put in there is going to save you 40 cents. You follow me? Okay. $10,000, if you can put $10,000 in there, it saves you four grand.
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