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I have been looking at IBC for a few years now. I listened to becoming your own banker driving back from North Carolina back to Wisconsin and have been listening to podcast. I am a Military retiree servicing 23 years in the Marine Corps and Wisconsin Army National Guard in the AGR Program. We own rental property and a Home inspection business.

Just finished my second go around with BYOB. Having a hard time wrapping my mind around the figures Nash is utilizing in purchasing your own equipment/financing the needs of life. Don’t get me wrong here. I get that my policy grows uninterrupted in the background. That’s not my hang up. In ‘Equipment Financing, Illustrations 1-5’, I’m not getting his math the second time around. Hypothetical, take out a $40,000 car loan. Just for the sake here, we will say I can get 7% at my credit union for 60 months. A policy loan would be roughly the same for arguement here. My basic understanding would be that from the credit union my payment would be $792/mo. To not steal the peas, I take a policy loan, and pay at least $792 back to my policy. Let’s call it $800. My hang up is this: How does Nash get to these tables (p 54, 59-64?) I’m paying back 7% to the life insurance company on the policy loan. Does this only work if I’m putting MORE than I would pay to my credit union into paying back my policy loan? (Say, $1,000/mo?) What did I miss in my two readings to make the numbers work the way he demonstrates?

Hi all — I wanted to share a tool I've been working on for a while to help me manage my IBC strategy. I built it for myself first. I'm hoping for feedback so I can make it useful for others too — the goal is to make IBC more transparent. Take a look at https://ibctool.app It keeps your policies in one place: cash value, loans, and what you can still borrow. Envelope-style budgeting of your cash value so you can earmark money for a car, a property, reserves, etc. without actually pulling it out of the policy. It also helps you run the PUA ↔ loan cycle for recurring expenses (Nash's new car example): borrow against a category, repay from redirected PUA, refill when the loan is gone, borrow again. And it keeps an eye on the usual policy nuances and footguns — interest about to capitalize, PUA room you're behind on, a rider close to lapsing, that kind of thing. Its currently free to use and I'm looking for feedback, so hop on and let me know what you think. Feel free to post any questions you may have here.

Does anyone have a solid IBC vs HYSA vs Market calculator? I've been working on one in excel, but looking for something a bit more in depth & flexible; happy to share what I put together, just shoot me a text/email I'm a big fan of the BetterWealth channel, they're working on one, but it hasn't dropped yet; anyone have any recommendations?