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What's your current short-term financial goal?
What's your current short-term financial goal?
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May 17, 2020
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What's your current short-term financial goal?
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May 17, 2020
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Survive CoVid
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May 17, 2020
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Pour money into student loans and crush them before EOY
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off two credit cards
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May 17, 2020
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Short term goal is to become financially secure in the long term.
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May 17, 2020
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what steps are you taking right now to work toward financial security for the long term?
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May 17, 2020
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Buy a bitcoin
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off credit cards and car loan before end of year.
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May 17, 2020
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Keep our business afloat
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off my car by the end of the year
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May 17, 2020
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Fully fund my IRA
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May 17, 2020
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Be able to get off the overtime list for month of June & not get behind on bills/savings. so I can rest and get my side gig ramped up again. selling on Amazon. small-time seller. nothing major.
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May 17, 2020
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Invest as much as humanly possible.
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May 17, 2020
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Finish up an entirely too long rehab and get this house rented and move to the mountains for the summer lol
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May 17, 2020
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Buy a second house for my parents to live in.
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May 17, 2020
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Obviously get to the next paycheck without any hiccups. I guess pay at least a $1000 each month toward student loan. Maybe save up a little for when my cousins come up to visit
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May 17, 2020
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Cash flow a wedding here in NYC! So expensive
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May 17, 2020
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Buy a house or a rental property!
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May 17, 2020
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Get back to work.
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May 17, 2020
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Doubling my stock portfolio
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May 17, 2020
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Not totally deplete my emergency fund
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May 17, 2020
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Get our EF up to 20k
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May 17, 2020
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Looking at having 5k to put down on a new to me car.
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May 17, 2020
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off all credit debt. Should be completed by the end of this year!
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May 17, 2020
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Saving up $20k for a "new" used car
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May 17, 2020
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To end my credits.
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May 17, 2020
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To pay off my mortgage
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May 17, 2020
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Grow my emergency fund by cutting back expenses and generating side income (no ideas for that one yet).
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off another high interest credit card and let that CC go unused
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May 17, 2020
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Continue to save money for a house deposit and work on my side business
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May 17, 2020
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Pay off credit card debt while student loans are on hold
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May 17, 2020
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Arrange retirement and taxable brokerage accounts following a three fund portfolio approach.
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May 17, 2020
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Save enough to buy an apartment by my 30th birthday in 4 years.
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May 18, 2020
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Pay off all my credit cards become debt-free
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May 18, 2020
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Grow EF and then pay off debt
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May 18, 2020
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Saving for a downpayment for a house.
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May 19, 2020
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Kitchen, living room, laundry, bath and new windows remodel doing pretty much everything ourselves. Took out a 0% interest CC for 12 months, saved $10k and have a HELOC lined up at the end of 12 months in case we can’t pay off the CC on time.
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May 19, 2020
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Walk away from work at 27 (currently 23) with 6 figures in the bank and earning 6 figures annually in passive income so my wife and I can focus on raising a family
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May 20, 2020
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Pay off my student loans in the next 4 months. $8000 to go
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Finish my emergency fund
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