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Worried but also feeling positive
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Hope you are soon feeling better BRB - take it easy while you recover fully.
Definitely start to get a grip/focus on the spending and drilling down into the accuracy of the SOA as well.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0 -
If the SOA is accurate then you're actually in a very good position to be able to clear down the debt.
Some assumptions;
1. You're not using the credit cards any more
2. Minimum unsecured payments are interest + 1% of balance
If you assume that you clear down 1% of your balance a month, that's £739 a month cleared just by making min. payments
Add to that the £1,820 from the SOA and that's £2,559 a month cleared off of the debts.
That's "just" 29 months to completely clear the debt.
You would be able to clear down the most expensive debt (aqua) in just 3 months.
If the SOA is accurate...
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