My house, furniture and everything I'd owned was auctioned off to pay debts I didn't even know existed.

房子、家具、我拥有的一切全给拍卖掉，用来偿还那些我从未知晓存在过的债款。

youdao

However, my questioners do make a good point: you should not pay off the house as your only savings strategy.

然而，向我提问的人的确提出了一个很好的观点：在你只有储蓄计划的时候，你不应该还清房贷。

youdao

First, pay off my house.

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And they say, why should I continue to pay off a loan that's, you know, worth 20 or 30 percent more than my house is.

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