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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

Family Balance Sheet

1 – Save a starter Home Emergency Fund. Dave Ramsey suggests to have a starter emergency fund of $1000 while focusing on paying off non-mortgage debt. We have definitely dipped into this fund often, so I’m glad I strayed from his advice here. We’ve been in our home since September 2001.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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At the time we were renting an office space in a strip mall, but when we discovered a foreclosure in our town that seemed like a great idea on paper, we jumped at the chance. Where our mortgage enters the equation: We bought our modest home in September 2001, before home prices soared and inevitably, tanked. We bought our home in 2001.

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