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Updated almost 8 years ago, 01/26/2017
I need to correct my mistakes
Hi BP!
I need your opinions about my personal financial situations.
After paying off my student loans last year, I bought a nice home for our self and two cars last year.
Big Mistake! I have never thought about becoming a financially freedom guy.
As a young healthcare profession, I just thought about working for 35-40 years. But I somehow found biggerpockets websites, read blogs and bought and read several BP books. It opened up my world.
Now I am trying to reduce my 401k just to match what my company pay for (I have been maxing out my 401k and IRA each year) in order to save downpayment for a rental SFH.
My wife loves our home so I can't do anything about it.
The problem is my two cars.
My bimmer has 5 year loan and if I sell it today, I lose all of my downpayment (10 grand) and leaves me negative 5 grand. My Honda S2000, I lose my downpayment which is 5 grand. I was quite excited that I don't have anymore student loan, so I made a wrong choice. Now I want to correct it. We all learn from our mistakes right?
What would you do if you were in my shoes? Would you still sell those two cars and get a cheap Honda Accord? or would you keep one of the cars and suck it up?
I really want to start buying rental homes, beginning this year, but I don't know if bank will allow me to have additional mortgage on top of what I have. I love what I do for living, but I want to become financially free.
Thanks in advance for any inputs.