article thumbnail

2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

Family Balance Sheet

Our 2019 Financial Goal. Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. Our Debt Freedom Plan (October 2019 Update): Exact numbers have been omitted at this time.

Debt 100
article thumbnail

How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

Storm #2: 2013. August 2013 was a month that I’d like to wipe from my memory. But in August 2013 , our business softened, renovations to our new building were more costly than planned, and we were now the owners of two mortgages: our home and our business. I still use my spreadsheet to this day! Yep, life was good.

Debt 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

Family Balance Sheet

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. Aside from the mortgage, we also added equipment and renovation loans with the purchase, and we had a student loan. By the summer of 2013, we found ourselves in a pickle–we had too much debt and not enough cash flow.

Debt 130
article thumbnail

Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

If nothing changes, this loan will be paid off by end of 2019, but I’d love to move that up and say adios to this loan! If not, we’ll start saving in 2019. Our Debt Freedom Plan (an update): In 2013, we found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. Cash flow necessary business expenses and renovations.