21 and Already $350,000 in Debt!
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. So in a bit of a situation, |
| 0:08.3 | I'm 21 years old, three kids, five, two, and 34 days. |
| 0:12.9 | Ooh! |
| 0:14.2 | Started young, right? Yeah. I own a rental property, a duplex here in town, and own the home that I'm living in. |
| 0:24.5 | So two different mortgages, two different car payments. |
| 0:27.7 | Trying to figure out what best suits me. |
| 0:31.1 | Should I, I'm finding myself payment poor, which is probably 90% of the phone calls you guys receive. |
| 0:38.7 | And I'm trying to see if it's smart for me to keep saving for one thing, but falling behind |
| 0:47.0 | on the other. |
| 0:48.5 | What are you saving for? |
| 0:49.7 | Or should I? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, I'm just, like I said, I just went through a career switch. So I was in the car |
| 0:56.8 | business for the past four years, making 130 grand a year. Now I am a nurse making about 80 grand a |
| 1:04.3 | year. Whoa. And I, you know, it's what I went to school for. It's more consistent money, but definitely less now. |
| 1:13.9 | It will be more in the future, but less now. |
| 1:16.6 | And for these next couple years, it's going to be the income that can't afford what I have. |
| 1:21.4 | So I'm trying to figure out, it doesn't make sense for me to give, you know, |
| 1:26.5 | does it make sense for me to take a minor hit on my credit |
| 1:29.7 | and give car payments back to receive more money in my pocket so I can keep the lifestyle |
| 1:34.3 | for me and my wife or to make sense for me to sell everything so I can get more ahead of the |
| 1:39.1 | game or just. Okay, I tell you what, Colin, we're going to, George is going to tell you what to do, |
| 1:43.8 | but can I guide you so we can get to it faster? |
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