<title>Find out if you can afford to lend someone a lot of money</title>
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<klink type="prcdr">How do I find out if I can afford to lend someone a lot of money?</klink>
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<p>Figuring out whether you can lend somebody a large amount of money is like deciding whether you can finance a big purchase. You have to decide how to raise the cash, and whether this is really the way you want to use it. In many cases, you also have to decide whether you'd be comfortable with a nest egg that's smaller than it had been before.</p>
<p>Money can't help you with your decision about whether or not to make the loan, but the Purchase Wizard can help you figure out what you'd need to do to pull the money together.</p>
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<li>On the <emph>Planner</emph> menu, click <emph>Purchase Wizard</emph>.</li>
<li>In the <emph>What do you want to finance?</emph> box, click <emph>Lending money to someone</emph>.</li>
