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How to deflate that balloon payment

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If you financed your car with one final, very large balloon payment due after, say, six years of “normal repayments” - as a means of reducing your monthly repayment amount, there is a way to make that balloon smaller as you go along.
11 Aug English South Africa Education · Self-Improvement

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