Jan 6, 2018
Because it's not the level of debt that causes the problem necessarily. It's whether or not you can service it. On show #174, we gave the example of someone with a $500,000 mortgage and 25-year amortization. If the interest on it went from 3.29% to 4.29%, the monthly payment would go from $2,400 to just over $2,700. That's about an 11% increase.
On today’s show we discuss which debts should you pay first, and how to make that decision.