Budget: Saving Up for Down Payment Dave Ramsey Style - Printable Pdf

[@sp90009]

I live in Vancouver, and housing prices are crazy here. Apartment worth looking at starts from 600k, and the house is 1 mil and more (in canadian dollars). So we are renting, and will continue to do so for a foreseeable future.

[@mirikirimimi135]

Oh trampolines are great for kids! We also bought one this summer for our two little boys!

[@PidasianHippie]

I was lucky to be able to put about 25% down on my house but that is because I live in a fairly inexpensive housing market. Also, I opted for a much less expensive home than the lenders recommended for my income. As a result, I was able to pay it off in 12 years. Congratulations on saving so much for your down payment already. You are knocking this out quickly.

[@Godownsize]

Thaaank you, our goal was double, but we will get there I'm very grateful:) How fantastic you were able to put down 25% hat's off to you and for almost having it totally payed of, you rock:)

[@PidasianHippie]

@@Godownsize Thank you. It was some sacrifices but a lot of luck and blessings. 😊

[@sandymichalski3515]

Excellent budget. 10 per cent down and paid it off as quickly as possible.

[@sqd8r]

I bought my first house when I was 21-22. I just did a ton of overtime. Buying my second house and increasing the down payment I did the same - tons of overtime - to the point where for the entire year I only had 14 days off - all paid vacation. The sacrifice was worth it even if with the time lost doing frivolous stuff. This is something you can do when you are young and still party and exercise regardless. When you are young money matters. When older time matters. I also paid mostly cash for everything during that time, no loans beyond the mortgage and very little credit card use. I still live by that model today. Good video.

[@Godownsize]

thank you for sharing:) I hope to do another budget video soon.. also including our thoughts on buying our first home within the near future:)

[@MalinaCC]

Thanks for sharing! Where I live, the homes run for about $800k (lowest) but on average 1 million USD so I really appreciate these videos!

[@Godownsize]

autch that's a lot:)

[@suethurston4090]

Thank-you for sharing your budget. Hearing about the successes and challenges is inspiring. Could you share how your capsule wardrobe for yourself and Max has evolved.

[@casimirakerr9324]

Love your budget videos! We bought our 2 bedroom house in 2012. The purchase price was $325,000 New Zealand dollars. We paid a deposit of $115,000 and got a bank loan for the rest. I saved a lot for the deposit when I was working till beginning of 2011 when stopped working to study and have a baby. We have been paying off the home loan on one income ever since. We have around $90,000 left to go. Now we have two children in our small 70sqm house. I declutter a lot and try to be as minimalist as possible to save money and not have too many possessions filling up the house. My dream is to pay off the remainder of the loan by the time I am 40 in 4 years time, but that is not likely as we really do need to renovate to add an extra bedroom as my daughter and son cannot share a bedroom forever. The value of our house has increased over $200,000 in the last 6 years so in theory we already have even more equity in our house.

[@Godownsize]

Thank you for sharing, It's so nice to hear from others how you've gone about it. So you will be completely done in maybe 4-6 years thats awesome.. do you have any plans on how to celebrate?

[@casimirakerr9324]

@@Godownsize to celebrate I actually really want to take my children to Legoland in Billund. Which is 48 hours of travel away and quite expensive for us. By lowering our debt obligations we should be able to afford to do that and have a really fun family holiday. I have been watching your Danish travel videos and are quite inspired to visit some of those places when we come over too.

[@MrTellyGunner]

Mint averages expenses categorically. ;) One thing I wish I could do in Mint is start planning next month's budget before the 1st of each month. Does Every Dollar give you that capability? I've followed Ramsey's plan a little too faithfully to where I allowed my credit history to disappear, and my mortgage interest rate is .5% higher as a result. Although, I was able to save a 20% down payment on a 30-year fixed and rounded up my monthly payment to the next $100 to pay more principal. I plan to be more aggressive with paying down the mortgage once I've replaced my car. Saving up for the downpayment to avoid PMI was worth the grind, but I wish I hadn't let my credit history zero out until after I had my mortgage. Keep up the good work!

[@Godownsize]

yep in Everydollar you can plan ahead which is really convenient:) Sorry about your creditscore, I heard him talk about once, maybe in his book, how you have to do 1-2 years after you pay off your debt before taking out a morgage, then you have a 0 score or something.. We don't do creditscores in Denmark like that. They look at your history with money and how little debt you have and base it off that, but we also don't really do creditcards through other companies than maybe mastercard.. your creditcard normally goes though your bank to you normal account. A very different system:)

[@beccaannhome]

You can have money rollover each month in every dollar!!! You click on each category and then click "make this a fund" on the right side of the screen. A little piggy bank will show up next to the category name and you'll know it worked and it will roll over. Then you will be good moving forward! I wanted to add some balances to a few categories. For example, I had $40 in kids clothing from the previous month. So I added $40 to the income and I added $40 extra dollars to the kids clothing that month. It was a pain to manually get all the categories current but you only have to do one time 🙌

[@BestVideos01]

amazing you doing good for expensive country like Denmark. iam looking for more video about Denmark in winter

[@Godownsize]

Thanks:)

[@sarakrist]

We started DR program in March ann already in May we were on the same page money vise. This is first time ever in our 17 years of marriage.

[@Godownsize]

that's amazing, feels so good to work towards the same goal, I'm with you on that one. How did you learn about DR?

[@sarakrist]

I was a part of a group on Facebook about money. Someone shared about a DR group and than I started checking him out. I've been listening to his KZbin channel since late February. I've been following allot of KZbinrs who follow DR program. Our plan is to be debt free November 2021 and have EF in November 2022 and have a down payment for a house in November 2023.

[@HPTFan]

I am thinking about living in a small place in the future. I do want to enjoy life. God Willing things will be okay. Thank you for this video, Maria. Enjoy your day.

[@Godownsize]

Thanks you, you too:)

[@ceciliaruns72]

Happy I found your channel, but sad you stopped posting! I hope you were able to get your home!

[@Godownsize]

I'm back, so will be posting again. Need a break and to refocus:)

[@mirikirimimi135]

Oh i would be very interested in max minimal winter wardrobe!😃😃😃

[@Godownsize]

that could be an idea:) thanks:)

[@1207susant]

We didn’t travel.

[@elizabethlibero1878]

Where are you? Miss your posts!

[@Godownsize]

I'm back now:) Just uploaded my first video in forever.. hope you like the new direction of the future videos. Thanks for commenting:)

[@dessertspring4559]

From Dubai, I am curious to know the currency you use in budgeting videos are USD, EURO or DKK? As you mentioned 300,000, it would be helpful to know what exactly price is like in danish housing market. In addition, is it true danish income tax is 60 percent ?

[@nrubino3]

CASH three times . My first house was $9.500 . Second one was $10.000 and the house I'm in now I got 4yr. ago for $4.000 . Yes they were all fixer uppers but all livable while I worked on them . I live in the USA .

[@Godownsize]

Well done!!!! :) you're lucky to get houses at that price:)

[@missrosethiessen9487]

If you don't mind me asking, how much is each brick worth on your savings chart?

[@Godownsize]

I think I'll keep that private:)