Blog Entries tagged 'real estate'

Credit Card Debt - Oct 2008

admin@dueminder.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The chart below shows my credit card debt starting in January, 2008, and running through October, 2008. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I invested in a real-estate rehab, which spiked my total credit card debt to $63,000 in February. I got the house rented out in May, and since then, I've worked down the total to debt as shown in the chart below:

Below is a de [...]

Sixty To Zero - Intro

admin@dueminder.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

My credit card debt crept up slowly over the years, and hovered around $20,000 for quite a while. It seemed that just when I'd get serious about paying it down, another expense would pop up... a major car repair, soccer and hockey registration for the kids, Christmas. My interest rates seemed reasonable, and I got comfortable with the monthly payments as my salary crept up over the years as well. Paying off debt never became a huge priority.

Last year, after months of enticing from "Flip That [...]