Second Mortgage Debt Confusing?
Many Americans find Debt, and the causes of Debt to be confusing. This can often lead to families finding themselves in more debt than they can handle. Cnn reports the latest:
Americans don’t understand debt, which may be one reason that they have too much of it, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The survey presented 1,000 people with a hypothetical scenario about credit card debt and asked them to compute how long it would take to pay it off. Only 35.9% of the 1,000 respondents could figure out how many years it would take for the amount they owe on their credit cards to double. A full 18.2% did not know how to respond and 31.9% of those surveyed over-estimated the timeframe.
The survey by Harvard Business School and Dartmouth College professors and TNS asked respondents to assess their debt levels. Those who said they felt they were carrying too much debt were found to be “wildly wrong” when it came to using compound interest to calculate how long it would take to pay off that debt.
Understanding how a second mortgage works can help you reduce consumer debt. Often, creative use of such a loan can help pay off a debt much faster.
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