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  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Derpenheim @lemmy.zip

    Need some help navigating the recent news that married couples student loan rates are going to increase

    Put aside what you think about this news, this is likely going to happen as the admin doesn't care about legal challenges, they just implement policies.

    I own my home, fixed rate mortgage, and I own both of our cars with no remaining payments. From my understanding, should I cease payments on the loan (they are privately owned debts) I can be sued for the debt and then wages garnished. My credit score will also suffer from a default, but again I own everything I have or it's on a fixed rate.

    What does this process look like, and what are the tangible consequences for me?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    hemicycle @lemm.ee

    What do you expect off of a subscription tracker

    I am trying to make a super cool subscription tracker that can track all your subscription at one place like a google calendar but for subscriptions.

    what are some cool features you would expect.

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Grogon @lemmy.world

    My salery is decent but I somehow can't afford anything

    Where I am from my salery is quite okay to be honest. I get about 3700 € after taxes (state insurances, health care etc.) each month but I don't see me affording a car anytime soon.

    I pay about 1200 € a month on my debt for my house, so I have about 2500 € left. Another 600 € go away for electricity, water, trash, internet, phone provider etc...

    Leaves me with 1900 € left for the month. I'd say I spend about 900 € for food and household supply a month.

    1000 € I save 500 € for my house for later. 250 € for vacation (3000 € in total a year) And 250 € for car.

    It is going to take me about 5 years to save for a 15.000 € car. I don't know how people buy BMWs, etc. I know I don't earn that much but I need a car somehow my current car is breaking down and I got no money saved yet. Only about 1500 € cause I spent all my money on paving (had to be done) and my emergency saving wasn't enough for the bill of the paving and other work on that area around my house.

    I only save since 3 years ca

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    moe93 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Best approach to prepare for impending recession and economic doom of the USA

    I don’t have much in terms of investments (401K). I was wondering if there is anything I can do to minimize the impact of the incoming recession on my financial position.

    1- What do I do with my 401K? Do I keep it in the same funds or should I look into reinvesting it in different funds? 2- Should I keep an eye out for “the dip” and buy in? What? Market funds? Bond funds? ETF? 3- In terms of stocking up, what’s the best approach? Bottled water obviously, but what else? 4- I am almost done paying off my credit cards. However, I bought a new car last year. Other than looking into refinancing to a lower APR, is there anything else I can do?

    Until last year, I never thought much about how to survive the many “once in a lifetime“ shitshows we are seeing and usually rolled with the punches because I mainly didn’t have the financial means to do so.

    Now that I am somewhat financially capable –a privilege not many of my fellow countrymen have unfortunately– I want to try and minimize the dam

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Grogon @lemmy.world

    Inheritance (advice) hopefully this is okay here

    Hey I don't know where to post this. I can't find a good sub for this topic.

    My grandparents died and my mother is respecting the last wish of not getting anything from them and wants her brother to get it all, which is fine, because she is adopted by her parents sister and will get what her mothers sister has (house etc.).

    While this should be easy she could refuse, the issue we are now facing is that it will be passed on to me and my sister.

    I told my oncle that I would not accept the inheritance if my sister also refuses to.

    Now that my oncle also has a property he promised my sister that she'd get it if she refuses to accept the inheritance. Now I talked with him about it because the property is worth about 15.000 €. He said he would give me 5000 € instead.

    Now I don't know what to do. My sister says it was rude to ask him for money because it isn't our right to accept the inheritance and that the property has nothing to do with all this it's a gift from him to her.

    Well I s

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    muusemuuse @lemm.ee

    debt consolidation fucked me, now what?

    a bit over a year ago, I went through debt consolidation. I signed up with a company that offers me a monthly payment to kill my credit cards and provide me legal representation should I need it. It's been about a year since and they have only shut down some of them. There are 1 or 2 still left open.

    I was told not to make any payments on the cards. Let them complain and threaten with collections. This will let the debt consolidators buy the debt for cheap if the credit card companies refuse to close the cards. They have been tanking my credit for months and they aren't closing my cards.

    Now I'm in a bad place financially. I lost the job I had at the time I went into consolidation and the current one isn't paying as much. I'm not missing any payments but it's trapping me.

    I may need to leave my state for some place safer soon. But I have such a poor credit score now that I cant imagine anyone renting to me now.

    Debt consolidation feels like it was a scam.

    Should I declare ba

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Ersatz86 @lemmy.world

    Dedollarization

    It seems as though the endgame to all of the political chaos we are experiencing in the US is the dethroning of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Putting aside for the moment the question of why or whom might benefit from such an outcome, what is the best way to play defense if your wealth is dollar-denominated?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Mee @reddthat.com

    When should we pay rent with a credit card?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    TheReturnOfPEB @reddthat.com
  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Otter Raft @lemmy.ca

    TLDR: meme coin rug pulls, among other issues around centralization

    Crypto-believers often blame greedy financiers as the cause of the Great Recession in 2008. But we argue that crypto is not immune to these same risks.

    Public blockchains operate on a distributed peer-to-peer network. This network provides each user a complete record of transactions that is updated in real time. Users can send digital cash between themselves without relying on a centralized authority.

    Since each user has a full record of transactions, the system promises full transparency. But our research demonstrates that public blockchains, and the cryptocurrencies that run on them, do not actually replace trust with transparency.

    Speculation, manipulation and market crashes remain very real dangers, regardless of whether the financial system is centralized or decentralized.

    Centralization of power in the hands of insiders is still a major issue in the cryptocurrency space. **This is p

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    ocean @lemmy.selfhostcat.com

    Seeking advice. I'm having trouble handling monthly finances and week budgets with multiple credit cards. What should I do?

    I feel I should get rid of them or stop using them but most have good benefits so I am unsure what I should do. I tried using YNAB but it isn't how I think about money. I really need to stick to my budget but with my partner and child I feel money is constantly flowing out.

    • Sams card great for Sams and gas. Free. Only use for the above.
    • PNC unlim good all around and free.
    • Older PNC card, told not to cancel because it is free for my credit. Only pay utils on it. Not worried about this one.
    • Amazon card, 5% discount on amazon for family essentials, free.
    • Amex, 95$, good all around, and great customer support.

    I'm thinking I should possible cancel Amex and Amazon because they easily add up, then focus on just using my main PNC unlim card. Thoughts on this?

    The Amazon discount and Amex purchase protection are both nice but having more than one with so many purchases as a family is stressful.

    I don't see any reason to cancel the old PNC card or Sams card. Use around 100$ a mont

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    strawberry @kbin.earth

    what's the easiest way to see if I can afford to move out?

    I can easily find things like rent, internet, insurance prices, but how do I find things like grocery prices? I honestly don't even know what an average grocery list might look like, are there resources to help with this? my gf and I are looking into moving out, and assuming a monthly income of ~4400 USD and rent being 500 USD, I think we should be okay, but I need to be 100% that we won't be barely scraping by or anything. thank you everyone

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    return2ozma @lemmy.world
  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Redditsux @lemmy.world
  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    strawberry @kbin.earth

    What's the best way to save for a car?

    I'm putting away $300 a month, my question is where to put it. savings account has basically 0 interest, there are HYSA (high yield savings account) that would give me 3-5% apy, or I already have some money in stocks that have grown consistently 25% over the last year (index funds only)

    what would you guys recommend? I'm looking to buy it probably 3 years from now. that way either I've got a fat down payment or I can just buy it cash

    thanks

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    root @lemmy.world

    Buying into VOO

    Up until now, I’ve just been saving an emergency fund in a HYSA. I’m getting to the point where I’d like to put excess savings into the market, and am looking at something like the VOO ETF. It seems things are essentially at an ATH right now, and there are a lot of big political things happening at the same time.

    Would it be ill advised to buy into VOO right now? I could hold this in my HYSA but at the same time, I’m not needing this money for a while and long term I would think the market will continue to rise.

    I know there was news a couple days ago about Berkshire Hathaway selling their S&P 500 ETFs, but this made up ~0.01% of their total portfolio.

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    NataliePortland @lemmy.ca

    Worries about Musk having access to my banking info (US)

    Should I move my checking/ savings from my credit union? Should I move my investments from Schwab? Should I move to different institutions or what can I do to protect ?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    ThePiedPooper @discuss.online

    What are the chances that the current administration will absolutely screw my annuity?

    I have a medical malpractice annuity that pays out every month and goes up 2% compounded every year. I live in another country where cost of living is way lower than in the US and am worried that rapid inflation in the US or just overall instability will lead my annuity to be practically useless. Are these worries baseless?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    return2ozma @lemmy.world

    Americans are piling on debt at a furious pace, as tariffs loom

    Paywall removed https://archive.is/Psa8g

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    return2ozma @lemmy.world