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Paying off a credit card

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Listing Information
Amount: $9,750.00 Status: Loan created
Grade: AA DTI: 34%
Lender Rate: 10% Borrower: mmelson
Time Left: Finished State: MA
Funded: 100% Group: (No Group)
Loan Information
Loan Status: Current Origination Date: 2007-11-27 EricsCC ROI: 8%
Status History
Nov 27, 2007 Current
Purpose of loan:

I will be using this loan to pay off one of my credit cards.  My current minimum monthly payment on the card is $221, however, I almost always end up putting more towards my principle.  Over the past six months I've paid, on average, a little less than $650/month towards the card.

All of the debt on the card is the result of the daily living expenses I accrued while starting my business on a shoestring back in 2003, and from having to furnish my condo when I moved in a few months ago.  Until I moved, I had been living with roommates and never acquired much in the way of furniture, kitchen stuffs, etc., so I got to furnish my condo basically from scratch.

My financial situation:

I am a co-owner (50%) of a small video game development studio in Massachusetts called Dragonfly Game Design, Inc. (http://www.dragonflygamedesign.com).  We currently have 5 full time employees (myself included), as well as 2-3 part time employees at any given time.  We started right after I finished my Master's Degree (Computer Science) in 2003, so we will have been around 4 years this December.

The monthly payment for this loan is only slightly higher than the minimum payment on my card, which I have never had a problem paying, and about half of what I usually pay towards my card.  So, I will have no problems whatsoever paying this loan back.

Monthly net income: $3,500 take home

Monthly expenses: $3,125
  Housing: $ 1,050
  Insurance: $165 (auto and house)
  Car expenses: ~$420 ($320 of this is my truck payment, paid off in May)
  Utilities: $100
  Phone, cable, internet: $100
  Food, entertainment: $350
  Student Loans: $400
  Credit cards and other loans: $300
  Other: $250
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