Submitted by YesImClueless t3_z92dmq in personalfinance
ambrosiani t1_iyes46m wrote
Imo, you should:
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Savings account immediately - every paycheck and keep it going after you payback your dad. Calculate all of your monthly expenses and put a specific percentage into your savings account each month. I'd honestly suggest two savings accounts atm, one for paying him back and the other for a legit savings/emergency fund or whatever, but if it's too complicated, keep the one
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Go for the car payment first, entirely
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After that, your personal loan with higher interest rates
I'll be real, I don't know shit about refinancing loans as I've still got things to learn -- but. You're 25, you make 64k a year, there's a lot to work with here with this information alone. When making your monthly (or biweekly, depending on how often you get paid) transfers into savings, make a list of all of your bills and how much money you'll have left over. How much do you want to use for disposable income/yourself? What left of that do you want to put into your personal loan payment?
Your loans won't decrease by much if you're only doing the very minimum payments -- hence what you're seeing with your private loan. I'd recommend waiting on that one until you have some extra money and less loans to worry about.
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