So the earlier you begin the process... and the longer you keep your money in these accounts... the more your money will grow
off of the compound interest.
Not exact matches
Compound interest can drive up your total cost
of paying
off debt.
But when you apply the
compounded effect
of the debt's
interest into the equation, the reality is that it will take more than 6 years to pay
off $ 10,000 worth
of credit card debt paying $ 200 per month!
Furthermore, if you do not pay
off the item in full by the time the financing period ends, you will incur
interest that has
compounded from the original date
of purchase.
The power
of compounding (
interest earning
interest) means putting it
off could set you back tens
of thousands
of dollars in just a few years.
My net worth is 100,000 but it's not worth paying
off the student loan with it because most
of my loan will be forgiven tax - free anyway so better for me to keep my money
compounding interest.
One reason why it takes so long to pay
off a mortgage is because
of compound interest.
If credit cards are involved, peer to peer lending can provide a way to pay
off debt without paying such high
interest rates and reducing the effect
of compounding.
Anyway, I was just wondering your position, because I think it's
interesting when people talk about
compound interest, and some
of them fall into the camp
of paying those debts
off sooner to make the
compounding work in their favor, and others fall into the same camp you're in, and that is letting inflation and rents take care
of it.
Putting the money to work with the help
of compound interest over time has been a much better investment than paying
off low - rate student loans early.
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Also, when you pay
off debt, you get the advantage
of compound interest, just like with a savings account.
Through the power
of compound interest, the earlier you start the better
off you'll be.
In a situation like ours, if we decided to delay saving for retirement until those loans were paid
off, we would be losing FIFTEEN TO TWENTY YEARS
of compounding interest.
That means, more
of your money is going back towards paying
off the balances, and not on the
compounding interest.
When you spend years paying
off your mortgage instead
of investing the cash, you lose out on the magic
of compound interest for your lost investment dollars.
Credit card
interest behaves the same way it does for a mortgage, a car loan, or a student loan: it accrues and
compounds on top
of itself each billing cycle, and the longer you leave it unpaid, the more
interest builds, and the harder it becomes to pay it all
off.
The loan, which was made by Barclays Plc and has since been sold
off to investors, is now valued at more than $ 250 million because
of compounded interest.