BONUS call: Student Loans
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week on the BONUS call it's yet again the all too familiar question about heavy, heavy student loan debt. This time it was Alida in Florida looking for some advice as to how she and her husband can attack roughly 200k in loans. Even though that is a serious amount of debt, I have a pretty good feeling about these guys. Have a finance question? We want to hear from you! Email us at askjill@betteroffpodcast.com and we'll arrange to get you on. Don't forget, a brand new episode of the Better Off podcast comes out Thursday so stay tuned for more listener questions plus an informative interview. Better Off is sponsored by Betterment. Please let us know what you think by leaving a rating or review in iTunes. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ https://soundcloud.com/jill-schlesinger http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money http://betteroffpodcast.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Better Off bonus call of the week. We're sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor. |
| 0:10.3 | Now, you always have two chances to get on the program every single week. So get busy. Send us an email. Ask Jill at betteroffpodcast.com. |
| 0:19.5 | Ask Jill at betteroffpodcast.com. |
| 0:22.3 | And don't forget, on Thursdays, we drop our longer episode with a great interview. |
| 0:27.6 | We want to hear from you. |
| 0:28.8 | So be sure to let us know how you are doing. |
| 0:32.6 | Make that happen. |
| 0:33.7 | Right now, we are going to talk to Alita. |
| 0:36.2 | She is calling from Florida. Hello, Alita, not Alida, which Mark and I discussed at length before you got on the line. So Alita, what is going on? How can we help you? |
| 0:47.8 | Well, first of all, thanks for taking my call. I actually just found out about your podcast, and I've been a little addicted, so I thought, well, I have some questions, so I can try to see if I can get on a call and get some advice from you. Fabulous. I'm so delighted you did that. So what's going on for you? Well, I mean, my question is really related to our student loans. I'm married. We both have good jobs. We have three kids. |
| 1:13.7 | But we have a costly education background. Yeah. So we got the degrees and the diplomas, |
| 1:18.8 | and it costs us quite a bit. So we have about $200,000 in student loans. |
| 1:24.5 | Oh, okay. Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:32.3 | You got the diploma, so at least you graduated and you have jobs, so there's that. Yeah. |
| 1:33.3 | We don't have bad debt. |
| 1:34.3 | We don't have credit card debt. |
| 1:35.8 | I call it a good debt because it's education and nobody can take that away from you. |
| 1:39.5 | Between you and your husband, about 200 grand, what the range of the the interest on that six |
| 1:47.0 | seven five between six and seven okay how much six point two six point eight and a couple |
| 1:53.4 | seven okay tell me some more about yourselves he said you have three kids how old are you |
| 1:58.6 | I'm 35. |
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