Right after college, I found myself struggling with credit card debt. Looking back, it really wasn't a lot of debt, but, at the time, I really felt like I was drowning and I needed help. Even more frustrating was the different approaches all these financial "gurus" gave - the strategies work; however, I didn't understand why they all had such different approaches. Which one worked best?
Desperate to feel like I could breath again, I decreased my quality of life, ate A LOT of Top Ramen, and started sending additional money to each of my debts. Years later - I paid them all off! I was so proud and excited (and eager to have a meal that didn't involve noodles!).
After meeting and marrying my husband, we purchased our home and began living our life. We both worked pretty hard in our respective fields and were blessed to move our way up the ladder, earning decent money. We then purchased a nicer home and started getting some goodies. Each time we purchased something, in the back of my head, I remembered those struggling days right after college; and, we both made a point of ensuring we stayed within a comfort zone. Although we could easily afford our goodies, I still hated writing those checks every month to the mortgage company and other creditors; I hated even more seeing our checking account with our hard-earned money depleted every month.
In 2007, our Financial Planner introduced us to a web-based program designed to help individuals pay off their mortgage quickly. In fact, we were shown that we would have our 29-year mortgage paid off in only 9.1 years! We were saving $327,000 in interest and almost 20 years of payments. What is even better??? We did this without refinancing, our monthly payments remained the same, and there was no change to our monthly budget! That meant I didn't have to change my lifestyle and start eating Top Ramen again!!!!! Whehew!
I must admit - this sounded way too good to be true!
Eric, my husband, happens to be a rocket scientist. He ran an aerospace company as their Vice President, Chief Engineer, and Program Manager. We knew that we didn't want to waste the money on this program if it wasn't real; and, we knew we could not afford to NOT have the program if it was real.
So, Eric locked himself away in our library for the weekend to "crunch the numbers". I barely saw him all weekend! Sunday evening, he finally emerged and said: "Joan - I have three things to say: #1 - that program is based on math; #2 - I am never doing that math again; and, #3 - Go buy the program and buy it now"! So, our new journey of financial-freedom began.
And, it was so much better than we initially thought!
The developers continuously worked on the program and rolled out an update that allowed us to input all of our debt. I have the privilege of putting "Dr." in front of my name. Unfortunately, that privilege also came with a $185,000 price tag. We also had a boat loan, an RV loan, and one credit card. When we added these debts into the program, our projected freedom date only adjusted by about 5 years - we were dumbfounded!!!! And, super excited to finally realize complete financial freedom. It was within our grasp!
Even better, though - as our life goals changed, the program adjusted and changed with us. We decided we wanted to invest in a lot of real estate. So, we told the program we wanted a large amount of cash in our savings account to buy, buy, buy. The program recalculated and found the fastest route to accomplish that goal - we were amazed: We could invest in property a lot quicker than we thought possible!!! We began seeing our savings increase and we started buying property.
Then, we had a kid. I don't know if you know this, but, kids are super expensive!!! As we made changes in our program to accommodate our super expensive kid, we saw our Debt-Freedom date adjust; but, only by a few months! Again, we were amazed and still on track!
Eric worked a lot of hours and did not spend much time at home with our little boy. And, you could tell it was killing him inside. We didn't really know what to do; however, we knew he needed a change. So, we input a few different scenarios into our program to see what we could do financially. Long story short, Eric is now retired (retired in 2015) and spending more time with our little one and me. We purchased a brick and mortar franchised business cash and are in a financial position we never thought possible. We now have freedom. We now have choices. We travel more, spend more time together, have flexibility to do what we want, when we want; and, we would never have known this was possible without our program.
To me, this program is life-changing. And, I need to bring this solution to as many people as possible. I am not alone in my struggles. And, people need to know there is a solution. You too can realize Debt-Freedom. You can be debt-free. You have a choice: Continue down the path you are on and continue in a life-time of debt. Or, learn how you too can find and enjoy Debt-Freedom and realize a life you never dreamed possible.
Do you want to continue working for the bank? Or, are you ready to reverse the rules of banking into YOUR favor and keep more of your hard-earned money?!?!