Dave Ramsey: Get Free Cars for Life
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Dave Ramsey's Plan to have Free Cars for Life
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Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life
How to Get Free Cars
Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life
This YouTube video describes the Dave Ramsey
Free Cars for Life
Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life
Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover Program
This is a six year plan thats starts with a person who is at the end of their current loan/lease.
What many people do:
1/3 of car buyers sign up for a six year loan at an avg of 9.6% interest and avg price of $26,000. That makes for a pymt of $475/mo for six years.
After those six years, you've paid over $33,000 in car payments for a $26,000 car that is now worth only about $6,000. At this point most people would go out and buy another new car and REPEAT the cycle. So they always have a car payment.
Dave Ramsey's Free Car Plan:
Step 1: Starting from the point of just paying off your loan and having a car worth approx 1500. Instead of going out to buy a new car with a pymt of $475/mo like in the example above, pay yourself the $475 payments to a savings account for 10 months. After 10 months you'll have $4750 saved + $1500 that your car is worth. With this $6250 (in only 10 months) you can pay CASH for a good used car and you don't owe anyone anything for it.
Step 2: Continue making payments to yourself (saving) $475 mo for another 10 months and you'll have another $4750. You'll probably be able to sell the car you just bought 10 months ago for about the same price you paid for it ($6250). Add these together and you can go PAY CASH for an $11,000 car in just 20 months from the staring point of the plan. At this point you're 20 months into the plan, with an $11K car that you BOUGHT WITH CASH.
Step 3: Continue to carry out payments to yourself for the remainder of the six years (52 more months), but invest these monthly payments into a good mutual fund that avg 12% returns, and you'll have $32,000 at the end of the six year plan. If you'd have bought that new car with the $475 pymts six years ago you'd just be paying off your loan with $0 in savings for another car.
Step 4: Here's where the FREE cars come in. If at this point you go buy a car with CASH for $12,000 from your car fund, you'd still have $20,000 left in there. This $20,000 will continue to earn interest at 12%. You'd be able to use that interest money to buy with CASH a $14,000-$18,000 car EVERY FIVE YEARS for the rest of your life without adding any more money to the car fund.
Step 5: If you chose to continue investing that $475 every month that you're NOT spending on car payments and earn on avg 12% on that money, you'd have over $100,000 in ten years. At twenty years, you'd have about $470,000. After 30 years, you'd have $1.6 Million. After 40 years, you'd have socked away $5.5 million!!!
Or you can just keep paying $475 for a new car payment and never break the cycle.
Saving Money to Buy a Car with CASH
2 Car Family saving $500 per month
Don't think your car will last 10 years? The numbers are about the same if the family wants to replace the cars every 8 years (one car every 4 years), by simply increasing the monthly savings to $600.
2 Car Family: $500 Per Month Budget
Year
Annual Contribution
Total Contr & Interest (10%)
Car Purchase Price
1
$6000.00
$6282.00
none
2
$6000.00
$13233.00
none
3
$6000.00
$20890.00
none
4
$6000.00
$29361.00
none
5
$6000.00
$38718.00
$20000.00 Car
-
-
$18718.00
remaining balance
6
$6000.00
$26960.00
none
7
$6000.00
$36066.00
none
8
$6000.00
$46126.00
none
9
$6000.00
$57238.00
none
10
$6000.00
$69515.00
$22000.00 Car
-
-
$47515.00
remaining balance
Year
Annual Contribution
Total Contr & Interest (10%)
Car Purchase Price
11
$6000.00
$58773.00
none
12
$6000.00
$71210.00
none
13
$6000.00
$84949.00
none
14
$6000.00
$100127.00
none
15
$6000.00
$116895.00
$25000.00 Car
-
-
$91895.00
remaining balance
16
No More Contributions
$101517.00
none
17
$0
$112147.00
none
18
$0
$123891.00
none
19
$0
$136864.00
none
20
$0
$151195.00
$30000.00 Car
-
-
$121195.00
remaining balance
Year
Annual Contribution
Total Contr & Interest (10%)
Car Purchase Price
21
$0
$133885.00
none
22
$0
$147905.00
none
23
$0
$163392.00
none
24
$0
$180502.00
none
25
$0
$199403.00
$35000.00 Car
-
-
$164403.00
remaining balance
26
$0
$181618.00
none
27
$0
$200635.00
none
28
$0
$221645.00
none
29
$0
$244854.00
none
30
$0
$270493.00
$40000.00 Car
-
-
$230493.00
remaining balance
Balance
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to
Grow
You
Keep
Getting
FREE CARS
Cost of Car Loan Payments
The average car loan payment is $465. Over the course of 15 years, if you have one car payment you'll have spent $83,700. If you have two car loans in your family, you'll have spent $167,400 on cars over those 15 years.
Links to Dave Ramsey
- www.DaveRamsey.com
- Here's Dave Ramsey's Official website
- Dave Ramsey's Free Car Program (on his official site)
- Go Here to view the Drive Free Cars program on Dave Ramsey's Website
Dave Ramsey Books
Dave Ramsey Books on Amazon
The Financial Peace Planner by Dave Ramsey
Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey
The Money Answer Book by Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover
Total Money Makeover - Kindle Edition
Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover
EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
Dave Ramsey EntreLeadership
Dave Ramsey More than Enough
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University Membership Kit
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace
Dave Ramsey Books
Dave Ramsey Books on eBay
More than Enough
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Any Comments or Suggestions?
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TheCureForYouthMinistry Nov 9, 2011 @ 10:07 pm | delete
- I have done the Ramsey plan and it works.
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mayapearl Feb 8, 2011 @ 4:52 pm | delete
- I totally agree that buying a new car and paying it off over time is not a good idea. I love this lens and all the great tips and ideas, well done.
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mellielou Feb 19, 2010 @ 5:21 pm | delete
- Free Cars for Life is my favorite Dave Ramsey idea!
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BIRK
Apr 19, 2009 @ 10:03 pm | delete
- Are there any comments from people who have actually done this program? How did it work for you? What about paying sales tax, license/registration, and doc fees? Are those figured in?
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