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Hey, welcome to So Money, everybody. It's Friday, April 8th, 2022.

I'm Farnoosh Karabi, and this is Ask Farnoosh.

Joining me on the show today will be Georgia Lee Hussie, founder of Modernist,

Financial in Portland. She is a certified financial planner,

friend of the show. She and I are going to tackle your questions that have come in

through the various pipelines about how much to save in your 30s.

What's a good number? How to invest appropriately by this age?

Another question here about refinancing a car and how that may or may not hurt your credit score

and more importantly, and the opportunity to qualify for a good mortgage.

And the best way to handle money decisions with aging parents, a listener is looking to help

her parents relocate, maybe get a new house. What's our advice for her before we get to that?

And also the reviewer of the week, our iTunes reviewer of the week. I have a cautionary

tale for all of you regarding Bitcoin and an online scam that my dad actually experienced

earlier this year. I just wrote about it for CNET. You can check it out. I've got the link

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