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Need advice

I have never been late on a payment to anything.  My FICO is 768.  I bought a $99K house last year with a bridge loan for $40K; now the loan is due.  I want to just pay it off and have no house payments.  I have $20K in a CD (which is up now, too) and $20K in stocks that I can cash in.  The big drawback to any of this is as follows:   I don't make much money and I have about $18K in credit card debt to 1 account.  Should I just pay off the house?  And keep whittling away at my credit card debt?  What should I do?
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Tuscani
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Do whatever saves you the most money over the long term.
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Anonymous
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payoff your credit card, you can use the deduction from your interest rate on the home loan on your taxes. the credit card debt is just costing you.
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Anonymous
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credit cards first!  The mortgage is actually 'helping' you (tax wise and on your CRs)  Make 1 extra payment every year doing that takes a 30 year mortgage to 22.7 or so.  If you can (while the loan is young) make 2 payments each month: the first a 'normal' payment, the second the next month's principal only. basically same effect - shortens how long you will have to pay.
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