But
if living debt free is your desire, it is better not to go into debt at all.
But
if you live a debt free life and spend less than you earn then magically you won't have the same financial woes as the majority of Americans (unless something major happens).
Not exact matches
(Almost by definition,
if you're
debt - free, you're
living below your means.)
If FUBU had failed, he explained, at least he wouldn't have run up huge
debts just to
live, and run the risk of going bankrupt personally or ruining his credit rating.
Heck, you could drive a $ 40,000 BMW and
live in a $ 500,000 home, but
if you're $ 600,000 in
debt, then you're actually worth less than a 7 - year - old child!
If you're
living paycheck to paycheck and have tens of thousands of dollars in
debt, then the answer is pretty simple.
«
Life insurance in retirement might make sense
if you have a fair amount of
debt that you don't want to burden your family with,» Simmonds said.
People need to realize that $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 a year is a great income to
live on
if you don't have
debt.
I often say
if you're willing to go into
debt for $ 100,000 - 150,000 to get an MBA and have two years of your
life with no work experience, why on Earth wouldn't you just join the most ambitious early - stage startup you know and work for a paltry salary to get the experience?
You might have business
debts that could fall on your family
if you don't have
life insurance.
So
if you have 20 years left on your home loan and your refinance using a 30 - year loan, you've just added 10 years to the
life of your
debt.
A collection agency, whether through the US government or private lender, won't usually settle a defaulted student loan
debt if it's less than the amount that the lender is likely to receive over the
life of the original loan — so negotiation is essential during settlement talks.
However, it's a low - cost way to increase your
life insurance coverage
if you're a young parent or have significant
debt that would be passed on to others, such as small business loans.
You guys are set for
life John and really don't have to worry about stocks and bonds and diversification as much
if your
debt levels are under control and your pension covers all your expenses.
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«Focus on paying down all
debt and downsizing —
if necessary — because
living debt - free in retirement means
living stress - free,» Janis said.
«Americans are fed up with their student
debt, as evidenced by their delayed
life plans and the lengths they would go to in order to get rid of it,
if they could,» said Andrew Josuweit, CEO and president, Student Loan Hero.
There is a basic moral principle at work:
If debts can not be paid without radically transferring property from debtors to creditors, the loan should be deemed «bad» and be written down to the ability to be paid while
living a normal
life.
If you want to enjoy
debt free
living, you may need to pay more than the required minimum payment.
Bob @ Dwindling
Debt writes Great Tips for Cutting Expenses in Retirement — The average retired person already knows how to
live on a fixed income, especially
if they have been retired for a number of years.
Term
life insurance provides affordable coverage for a defined period of years, with its primary purpose to replace income or help pay off outstanding
debts if the insured dies during that time.
If you feel like you're drowning in
debt, we can throw you a
life ring.
In addition, your spouse may be liable for your
debt if you
lived in a community property state.
We recommend that you don't purchase credit
life insurance and,
if you're concerned about
debts being passed on, purchase a term
life insurance policy instead.
Term
life insurance is a great option
if you have a particularly large amount of
debt or know how long the
debt will be outstanding.
A spouse could also be held responsible for the
debt if you
lived in a community property state.
The borrower
lives in the home while the bank retains the right to seize the home
if the borrower is unable to service the
debt.
Life insurance can pay off your business
debt, pay taxes
if ownership of your business is transferred as part of your estate, or pay for a business partner to buy out your share via a buy - sell agreement.
But I think in other countries, maybe Australia,
if you walk away you still owe the money, so the
debt will follow you for all of your
life.
If you payoff your
debts, or at least the high and variable - rate variety, you'll be removing a large measure of uncertainty from your
life.
However,
if you are a single doctor making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a meaningful
debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either
lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that made long - term investments) even
if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so much more with your hand in
life.
If anything changed in your
life, it could affect your financial situation, making it impossible to pay off these
debts, which would cause further problems.
If you've got a major, shared goal — like, say,
living overseas or
living debt free — you're going to have to get practical.
I consider simplicity as a spiritual way of
life —
if you stop working around the clock or worrying about being in
debt or shopping compulsively, then you have time to try to be a better person rather than just an accumulator.
I don't agree but I understand:
If you were 80 years old already (a rough estimate for an average human
life span), you would have to hear someone tell you that they had turned their back on organized religion about 6050 times per second for your entire
life just to pay off the national
debt.
One danger to the Christian revolt is that it will enter into alliance with forces whose aims and strategies are so foreign to its own that when the common Victory is won —
if won it can be — the revolutionary church will be left with the sad reflection that it supplied the «Fourteen Points» which gave specious sanctity to an outrageous peace and that its fruits of victory are an external prosperity based on rotting foundations and
debts which it can not collect without destroying its own
life.
If, for example, «conscience» can command me to use artificial means of contraception because of my life circumstances, why couldn't conscience permit, or even require, that I continue to defraud customers if my business is in debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situatio
If, for example, «conscience» can command me to use artificial means of contraception because of my
life circumstances, why couldn't conscience permit, or even require, that I continue to defraud customers
if my business is in debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situatio
if my business is in
debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situation?
Diana's «
debt» continued to increase, to more than 10,000 euros, and
if she refused to do the work to pay it off, her captors threatened her
life.
If only half of reimbursements for
debt servicing went towards health and education, it would save the
lives of 300 children per day and 16 fewer women per day would die following childbirth.»
I don't think he can contribute to my
living situation and I can't afford him too but
if I break up with him because I'm fed up of his lack of money and his big
debts that makes me appear to be an awful human being, not taking him in and breaking up with him at his lowest point financially.
If you are here reading this right now you are jumping into our story at the point where we are — 100 % out of
debt — free from our 9 - 5 jobs and have one that lets us
live on our terms — homeschooling our girls — looking for our sailboat.
If you look at
Live 8 and the sequence of events, it precedes the decision to end Third World
debt.
The National Union of Students (NUS) President Aaron Porter, who wrote a piece for Channel 4 News asking Lord Browne
if he would like to start his adult life with debts of # 40k last week, said: «If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher educatio
if he would like to start his adult
life with
debts of # 40k last week, said: «
If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher educatio
If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher education.
«There are shorter product
life cycles and
if consumers are feeling less connected to the products they're already buying, just add easier access to credit and higher consumer
debt levels and it's a toxic combination,» says Shah.
If you are here reading this right now you are jumping into our story at the point where we are — 100 % out of
debt — free from our 9 - 5 jobs and have one that lets us
live on our terms — homeschooling our girls — looking for our sailboat.
For example,
if you define your ideal
life as follows: I have no
debt, I am free of my abusive partner, I have no chronic pain.
If you're desire is to be
debt free and go into full time ministry, then you should absolutely be taking the steps now to
live that way.
Sure the best
life starts with the best education, but
if the education is
debt free it is even better!
This would be me in a nut shell
if I found out that I only had 30 - 60 days left to
live... that is,
if I didn't have kids and a husband that would have to inherit my
debt.
Love is never as formulaic in real
life as it's often made out to be in the movies and The
Debt offers a refreshing, (
if not a little hard to understand at times) more realistic take on it.