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Easy Way To Start Paying Off Your Debt

Name: Easy Way To Start Paying Off Your Debt
Uploaded: 2024-12-08T18:30:23+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this segment, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, advises viewers on a practical method to accelerate debt repayment by reducing car‑related expenses. She…

8 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, advises viewers on a practical method to accelerate debt repayment by reducing car‑related expenses. She recommends terminating any existing lease and purchasing a very inexpensive, older vehicle—ideally a $5,000‑price‑point car—preferably with cash to avoid financing costs. She stresses choosing a model with low insurance premiums and minimal repair expenses, suggesting research into average repair costs by make and model. If a household owns multiple cars, she encourages consolidating to a single vehicle, even when kids are involved, by planning shared usage. The overall message is that downgrading to a cheap, low‑maintenance car can free up cash to pay down debt faster.

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If you have a car lease, turn it in, all right? And then buy a $5,000 clunker. Like, easiest way to pay off your car is pay off a cheaper car to trade in the one that you have. I think my first few cars all had, uh, over 100,000 miles on them when I bought them. And so you can usually get a huge amount of savings on a car if you buy a car that's like 10 years old and they still have like, you know, a few years on them. And so downgrade, I'd consider buying them in cash, be Gucci. Try to have something that has low insurance and low, uh, repairs. And a lot of that stuff you could look at average cost to repair by different vehicles. Next thing is if you had multiple cars, downgrade to one. Yeah, if you have kids, maybe there's considerations there. But even then, like, is there a way that you can just use foresight and say, how will we share one car?