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Net Worth Review: August 2007

September 4, 2007
By Clever Dude
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August was a successful month with our net worth, but the stock market didn’t help. Our overall net worth increased by 5.99% last month, thanks to an impressive debt payoff.

We paid off about $3,800 in debt principal and gained about $1,100 in assets (stocks).

By the way, I stopped tracking both our home value and mortgages in our net worth. I can only guess what it could sell for, so there’s no use in trying to track a profit now. Our net worth graph took a giant drop, but we’re still on the positive side for net worth.

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  1. The Financial Blogger says

    September 4, 2007 at 7:25 am

    I am kind of new to your blog so excuse me if you wrote about that earlier ,but do you have a lot of money invested in the market?

    I guess not with the net worth growth you are showing. I suppose it is the best moment to pay off your debt as investments might not offer the same yield (some debts are easily over 10% of interest rate).

    Congrats!

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  2. Pinyo says

    September 4, 2007 at 7:26 am

    Congratulation on the big jump. I am posting how I estimate my home value today, you may want to check it out. I think the method gives decent estimate and let you keep an eye on the housing market condition too.

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  3. Clever Dude says

    September 4, 2007 at 8:26 am

    FB: I wouldn’t say that we have a lot invested in the market. We actually took a bit of a beating last month, but we still came out ahead.

    None of our debt is over 6.25% right now (except our second mortgage), so we’re in that group of people who have to do some analysis whether to invest or decrease debt. I hate debt, so I chose that route, but now that we’ll be out of CC debt at the end of this month (oh, sweet glory!), I’d like to increase our 401k contributions.

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  4. Mark A says

    September 4, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    Congratulations on the digging out of debt! I can’t wait until you make it all the way.

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