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January 12th, 2016

278-What Do You Do When You're Trapped in an Upside Down Car Loan?

  1. 278-What Do You Do When You're Trapped in an Upside Down Car Loan? Joshua Sheats 29:38

Today, we cover this question from a listener:

Joshua,

I know you get a lot of questions, but I was wondering if you have a radical way to get out of an upside down car loan.

I do financial Coaching for people in our church who have requested benevolence, and most of them have large car payments – e.g. Someone owes $25,000 on a car worth $15,000. I cannot find a solution that is good (and maybe there is none).

Dave Ramsey says borrow the difference so you have a smaller loan, but by the time someone is requesting benevolence, they cannot qualify for borrowing any more.

Other ideas of rolling it into another car loan with incentives aren’t great either. It is really the $3,000 in negative equity and more that I am looking to solve for.

Any radical ideas?

Travis

Joshua Sheats Teacher, Host, Broadcaster, Entrepreneur

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, is the world's leading authority on integrating lifestyle goals and money goals without conflict. He teaches normal people how to seamlessly connect the science of financial planning with the joy of goal achievement.

Joshua is dedicated to helping normal people achieve financial freedom by merging creative (and crazy) ideas from the world of personal finance with the academic integrity of formal financial planning. He simplifies complex money topics and makes boring financial mumbo-jumbo less boring.