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| Debt No More: How to Get Totally Out of Debt Including Your Mortgage | 
 enlarge | Author: Carolyn J. White
Publisher: Clifton House Pubsg, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 581157
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 185
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966165152
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.02402
EAN: 9780966165159
ASIN: 0966165152
Publication Date: October 1, 1998
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Product Description
The first complete personal money management guide dedicated solely to debt elimination. ? Contains the financial forms necessary to take the reader's life back from creditors.
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 20 Years, $1,000 a month, 12% interest, yields $999,999 June 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"You can pay off your debts and your mortgage in 5-10 years." During the next five to ten years, you will need to stop spending and make the decision to have "No more debt". Emotionally ignite yourself and believe you can be debt free. You will need to get each member of the family to believe in the vision of debt free and help encourage them to accomplish this goal by rewarding them to stop wasting money and buying at a discount. Be a contratrian moving against the trend, "the more we make, the more we spend" and transform it too "the more we make, the more we invest." 9% of the population will retire with an income of 50k. Make it a goal to own your car and home. Typically, once your income stops, you have 90 days before the bank wants to foreclose. Suppose a home cost 165k for the initial purchase and the borrower of the loan makes 17 years of payments totalling 165k then loses his job and is forced into bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings. The bank ignores the fact that the borrower has made 165k worth of payments, eliminates most of the equity in the home by offering "auction prices", takes possession of the home, and resells it for a profit. The bank wins through the monthly interest/principal payments and the resell and financing of the home to a new borrower. The author lost her home worth $1.4 million, 14,000 sq ft, and received $5k. She became angry and decided too become debt free.
What is the bottom line? Suppose 45 years of income with a total income of $2,250,000, Less Total Taxes Paid of $1,187,685, Less Mortgage and Interest $315,929, Less Automobile costs - $615,929, leaves $416,386 of money for your family. After 45 years of work you have $416,386 left less other expenses, such as, medical & dental, insurance, food and clothing, utilities, furniture, gifts, and vacation/entertainment, school and college, investment for retirement, child car, and repair on home & auto. Most people retire with less than 100k.
Break the chain of debt: 1. Get rid of credit card debt. For each dollar paid it will cost $4 to repay and 20 years. CC debt and medical emergencies are the number one destroyer of middle class wealth and stablity. 2. Don't buy new. Offer $500 above dealer trade in value for a car. Let friends and relatives know you will be interested in buying their car when they are ready to trade up. Automobile leasing is a cash drain and only makes sense for businesses which can take a tax credit. 3. Insure for 5-7 times your income. The rule of thumb for Insurance is "raise your deductibles" according to risk. 4. Make future payments on your mortgage. Here is where I disagree. Invest your money and then payoff your mortgage with the investments in one swoop. Let the money work for you outside the banking system. 5. Eliminate unnecessary spending and invest the money. Be a predator on spending waste. 6. Increase your income: 1. get a second job 2. create a business, turn your hobby into a money making venture. 3. sell cars, have yard sells, liquidate excessive items 4. reduce eating out and costly recreation/entertainment. 5. Stop impulsive spending - Stay away from bargain sales and marketing media. 6. Put a chart on your refrigator that tracks all the spending. Implement an family open books policy that shows where all the expenses when. Let family members provide feedback and ideas to improve the financial health of the family. Let family member critique the expense ledgers. Make the decision of overcome the spending temptation. 7. Become a thrift spender: buy older cars, clip coupons, attend auctions, look for things at yard sales, buy wholesale, join discount buying organizations, shop at consignment shops, buy only at end-of-season, and buy discount travel.
Other resources: Money Harmony: Resolving Money conflicts in Your Life; Overcoming Overspending, A winning plan for spenders; The money Drunk; 1001 ways to cut your expenses; Great buys for People over 50; Penny Pinching: How to Lower your Everyday Expenses without Lower your Standard of Living; The underground shopper; The Wholesale-by-Mail Catalog; Wholesale Guide to Buying Furniture.
"If it's going to be, its up to me". "The choice is yours!"
 Not Too Bad January 18, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book isn't too bad. It doesn't cover anything revolutionary, but it does a good job of covering some of the basics of getting out of debt. It's an easy read and goes fairly quick. If you want to read it I'd suggest picking it up at the library rather than buying it. One pitfall it does have is that the author could have left her anti-government and political propaganda out of it, that was a bit annoying.
Worth the price, and more April 2, 2000
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
Contrary to the preceding opinion from Alabama, this book is a good buy. It tells how to get rid of all your debt in the shortest possible timeframe, saving thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. It even gives a few examples of ways to decrease expenses so that you can use the difference to accelerate repayment of your debts. Following the advice in the book, I expect to be completely out of debt (over $140k, including the mortgage) within 5 years and expect to retire (comfortably) at least seven years earlier than I had anticipated. (P.S. -- I don't make six figures and have a young child.)The only thing I would change is that the author tells you where to go to find the "best" credit cards. Is there really such a thing? Getting another credit card will, over time, put far too many people back to square one. If you keep in mind that if you can't buy something for cash, that means you can't afford it -- this book can take you the rest of the way. If you think this book is useless you're probably looking for an easy way out of debt (expecting an inheritance?).
 ONLY COMMON SENSE February 21, 2000
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
THIS BOOK COVERS MATERIAL ALREADY KNOWN TO ALL READERS OVER THE AGE OF 16. DOES NOT FORMULATE OR DISCUSS ANY PRATICAL PLAN FOR DEBT REDUCTION
inspiring September 27, 1999
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have read many books about getting out of debt. Most of them have approx the same theories. I gathered two valuable pieces of information from this book. The first one was about how to go about paying off the mortgage and the second was how to prioritize your credit card bills to pay off. Inspiring!
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