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What is your net worth? I illustrated my net worth below
Mine's pretty pathetic, but it's not negative. It was very negative when I joined this forum a couple of years ago.
Assets:
Car, KBB value, assuming "good" condition: $17,200
Jewelry (I work in the jewelry business and could very easily liquidate most, for a fairly decent price): $5000
401k: $24,340
Bank Acct: $9,420
Total: 55,960
Liabilities
Car loan: $14,240 (expect to pay off in full in December).
Investments/401k; 390,000
Bonds: 15,000
Cash: 27,000
House Value 392,000
Company Stock 25,000
Debt
House 238,000
Car 1,500
Student Loan 10,000
Net Worth $599,500
I track my net worth often and its probably the most entertaining number to track because its influenced with income AND paying down debt. Its shocking how fast that can increase.
Note that I have $150K in cash in our taxable account but choose not to pay off the 3.35% 10 year loan we have on it....my reasoning is I want to pounce on a market opportunity like we had in 2009 and 2011.
So Net worth is about $1,120,000
If I count the house at fire sale liquidation, I estimate I could get $300,000 for it tommorow. The $400,000 would take 6 months to a year with an agent. So that would put our liquid net worth at $1,020,000.
When I get our liquid net worth to 1,250,000, we are so outta here
I was waiting to see if anyone asked that question or included those things. Shaggy did include non-financial assets (gold and diamonds) but nobody else has yet.
Not to quibble, but gold and diamonds are more liquid than a house IMNSHO, and definitely assets if you've bought them as such (i.e. didn't buy them as retail).
I wouldn't include antiques or art because the bottom has dropped out of those markets, which is a shame since I do have some nice art.
I just thought of this but what letter grade would you give yourself. Given my age I would give myself a "C." If I were double my net worth at my age now then I'd give myself an "A." I'm open to being graded by others also.
Put me in the embarrassed category, but here goes.
We are both 40 (She is three days older than I)
Home Value: $140k (We are located in a good spot, development in the area will make this go up in the near future, many other houses on the street have sold for excess of $160k)
Stuff (Collections, Harley, SUV (We have received offers on the SUV): :60,150
Precious Metals, Cash: $5,751.21
Retirement accounts: $89,846.14
Total: $279,747.35
Liabilities:
HELOC: $17k even
Net worth: $262,747.35
We are -$72,649.45 from where I need to be with the retirement accounts, we have a plan to make this shortage up.
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Our current plan will put us at age 50 our ROTH and 401k will be at $446k (If we earn 8% per year)
At 65 our plan will have us at 1,415k (In ROTHs and 401k, pending we earn 8%).
It looks pretty good if I don't factor in that I'm 50 years old and seriously behind in my retirement savings. Good thing I don't plan on retiring.
ETA: Forgot to include my biggest asset, my company. Two years ago my share was estimated (by an expert) at 2.5 million (not that I think it's an easy asset to sell, but it could be. It generates a lot of cash).
Repeating my own post to give myself a grade.
I'd give myself a D. I'm saving more than 30% of my income now, but I fear it won't be enough for my old age.
Before anyone gets to hard on themselves, remember that a net worth number is just that. A number. You have to look at factors like income, age, and annual expenses. Don't look at just the number itself.
Before anyone gets to hard on themselves, remember that a net worth number is just that. A number. You have to look at factors like income, age, and annual expenses. Don't look at just the number itself.
Oh I'm not hard on myself. Our expenses are pretty low right now. I know exactly how many years the $ would last us if all costs stay as they are today. I know there is 0 chance of that happening. It needs to grow a lot to make it thru the type of retirement we want. We are great savers on income earned so for that we get an A. One issue is I kept things so low risk for so long.
I will say though if we consider a C average tons of us posting are above average. I saw statistics a while back on what the average person has in assets and for retirement. Not good.
As of 2009, we had a negative networth so I will give us an B at this point. Ask me in another 2 months and the credit card category will have already disappeared.
This seems kind of arbitrary to me if we're not listing income. Our household income is about $70,000 to $80,000 depending on the year.
Age 36/50
Assets:
Cash: 61,500
Retirement: 207,000
Taxable/529s: 90,000
House Value 250,000
Debt:
Mortgage: 172,000
Net Worth $436,500
I'd give us a B- because we're a bit behind on retirement savings considering the age of my DH. We also bought a bit too much house. We're doing okay but the house is making it harder to save.
I haven't looked in so long...sooo now I am curious. We've been on autopilot for 3 years now 35 and 33 with 2 kids, 1 income.
Condo $600k
Retirement $385k
College $10k
Taxable Account $140k
EF $40k
=$1.175M
Debts
Mortgage $402k
= $773k Net Worth.
Um wow. I hadn't realized that we had saved so much or our assets were over a million. Happy day. We really need to consider moving however and I'm not sure what will happen with our condo. I definitely can get $600k probably more since the market is heating up. I don't like the prospects of buying SFH.
My goal is break $400k in retirement accounts this year and really consider saving more for college. I still can't wrap my head around it until we buy our final home. Yes I want a lot of things and one of them is a SFH with garage and yard.
This seems kind of arbitrary to me if we're not listing income. Our household income is about $70,000 to $80,000 depending on the year.
Pretty sure our income wouldn't help, our expenses are way more consistent than our income. But for income, we have ranged from 30k to I suspect this year over 120k somewhere. We've averaged for most of our savings years at 60k which is probably more useful.
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