The Pain of Debt at Our Little House

One thing that has been very chal­leng­ing for us since build­ing Our Little House has been the financing.

I know, the Small House Movement con­verts and min­i­mal­ists are prob­a­bly won­der­ing what the point was of hav­ing a small home if we still had to finance.

I’ve writ­ten before about our atti­tudes towards debt. We were chil­dren of the 70s and early 80s that was raised in a cul­ture of hav­ing an atti­tude that debt is ok, par­tic­u­larly on houses and vehicles.

I even worked nearly half of my adult life in the credit industry.

Our atti­tudes have changed now, our whole goal is to get out of debt, but we really need to refi­nance Our Little House while the inter­est rates are low to help us achieve our goals.

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