Tag Archives: self-employed
- I Can’t Pay My Estimated Quarterly Taxes. – Heather
“Dear Jim, I’m a freelancer who recieves a 1099 and pays estimated quarterly taxes but last year I was unable to keep up with my payments due to medical bills and other hardships. I do not think I will have enough to pay my 2011 taxes owed by April 15th, as well as, paying my [...]
- My Unemployment Ran Out and I’ve Just Had a Hard Time Making Payments on Time. – Christine
“Dear Steve, I no longer use my credit cards and have been just trying to pay off the balances for several years to which I’ve always paid the minimum and sometimes more on all my credit card bills, but recently the due dates have been changing from month to month, varying from the end of [...]
- I’m Running Out of Money Fast. What Do I Do? – Dana
“Dear Steve, Self-employed single mom in flooring industry (ca) Real Estate owned (2) rentals-devalued but currently rented but combined after rents is -(negative) $300.00 per month. Currently living in my home devalued with equity line maxed out. Credit card debit on personal credit card debt on business (corp) business currently has $15,000.00 in cash Business [...]
- Pam Owns Her Own Business And Wants To Reduce Her Business Debt
“Dear Steve, I am a self-employed home owner with $85,000 in business debt and $130,000 in home debt. We have about $30,000 in equity on our home. We make +/- 100,000 per year. Half of that goes toward the business and the other half we live on. Should we sell our house and rent? We [...]
- I’m Self-Employed, Sinking in Debt, and Considering Bankruptcy, Again. – Aletheia
Aletheia “Dear Steve, I’m self-employed and my earnings so far this year are about a third of what they were last year. with some scrambling for new clients, the situation is improving, as far as i can tell. but my debt load is too high. i’ve stopped using credit cards, and i’ve arranged for a [...]
- What Do You Think Would Be The Best Way to Deal With This Debt? – Harold
Harold “Dear Steve, I have credit card debt of about $30,000. I was out of work for awhile, I tried the self employment thing for several years but couldn’t get ahead with that. I now have a decent job, the pay is only about $23,000 a year but it is steady and it’s government and [...]
- I Live in Columbia And Want to Get Out of Debt. – Octavio
Octavio “Dear Steve, I live outside the US (Colombia, to be more specific) and since some of the facts and options in many get-out-of-deb sites does not apply to people in my country, the basics and the methods are valid here. Now I have a special situation, I’m self employee, I make around US$800/mo, my [...]
- I Used to Make a Lot of Money. Now I Don’t. – Barbara
Barbara “Dear Steve, I am self employed and in the last few years have been going downhill fast. I can get another job, but it wouldn’t cover a tenth of my expenses now because all this debt was nothing when my business was going well. For example, I was used to making 6 to 7000 [...]
- Should We Walk Away From Our Mortgage? – Phyllis
Phyllis “Dear Steve, We bought a house three years ago – ARM, two mortgages, total payment 2562. One year after we purchased the house, we were in the middle of refinancing when my husband lost his job. He was unemployed for four and a half months and we had to use our retirement to keep [...]