Patwho
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Hello, I am in 100,000 dept in credit cards. We make about 120,000 per year. I could add about 15,000 more this year. We are late on all credit cards by 7 months. I can only see two out comes. What I want to do is take a loan from my 401k for 50,000 and settle the credit cards with that. I am insolvent by about 60,000 and would not owe taxes on the settlements. My wife wants to declare bankruptcy and we would have to go with a 13. The payments are about 8 to 9 hundred dollars a month. I don't think this is a right way to go. She can get a second job but has lupus and she is sick a lot. The payments would be about the same. Please help. Our credit is bad.
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:36 pm |
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oldguy
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More data please. Young/old? Kids? House? Cars? What did yu buy with the$100,000? (Can you sell it?)
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:30 pm |
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Patwho
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Hello, my mortgage is 2900 which includes taxes and insurance. Cable is 150, food about 250, electric 150, oil 100, car payment 399(9000) left., gas about 60 week, I am 45 and my wife is 43, we have two kids, one is going to be a senior and the other is in10th grade. My house is worth 360,000 and my moragtage is 309,000. I looked at renting houses around where I live but they are around 2100 to 2500 a month. We took a lot of vacations so really not a lot of stuff to sell. I don't want to scam but I just don't see another way out right now. If I did take put the loans we should be able to repay in about 2.5 years. Thanks So much!!!
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:56 pm |
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oldguy
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quote: and would not owe taxes on the settlements.
Your lenders may settle. They assume that you will never make good on your loans, so they decide to accept something rather than nothing. But that stays with you for a very long time, as you can imagine, lenders don't like it when you stiff them.
One answer would be to sell the house and rent a 2 or 3 bdrm apartment, that would net about $50k from the house sale. Then take the $50k 401k loan. Use the $100k to pay off the loans in full. If you can rent the apt for $1500/m that cuts $1400/m out of your budget, that will make it easier to make that $4800/yr car payment. Your current house payment is $36,000/yr, you might be in over your head with that, that must be close to half of take-home pay?
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:01 pm |
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Patwho
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Hi Old guy, thanks for responding, our take home pay w/o ot is 7200 after taxes. Does this change anything for you?
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:41 pm |
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oldguy
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quote: 7200 after taxes. Does this change anything for you?
No - the $41,000/yr house/car payment is 48% of your $86,000 after tax income. Ie, you are spending almost half of your income on just two bills. That is unsustainable, it's no wonder you went under. The rest of your bills - groceries, electric, water, medical insurance, school costs for kids, cable, cell phones, tires, clothes, shoes, bicycles, christmas, new glasses, dentist. All that stuff adds up, cuts into your remaining $45,000. (Groceries, lunches, fast food, snacks - food alone is about $9000).
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Sat Jun 03, 2017 1:54 am |
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