Let's start today with a little game.

Humor me for just a moment.

Do you have a rent payment or a mortgage payment?

What would your life be like if you didn't have that and even better?

Think what your life would be like if you had never had one. Never right from the beginning

first house you ever lived in was a house you paid cash floor. I'm not talking about doing it at the age of 45 but at the age of 23. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheeze. Today on the show

we're going to be talking with a man who's the father of eight children,

and his three oldest have all purchased their own houses

for cash while in their early 20s

before they got married.

That'd be a conversation worth listening to, right? I first heard about today's author when somebody had sent me a link to his book and he wrote a book called Buying a House Debt Free.

And the author's name is Steve Maxwell.

And he and his wife Terry, they're Christians.

They run a Christian ministry, essentially

working with people trying to provide some practical instruction and advice on the

daily practicalities of life. So I saw this book and I bought this book called

buying a house debt free and I was blown away by the stories in the book and I think you're really

going to enjoy today's today's show a lot of times you know I firmly believe that you can't

judge somebody you can't you can't

can't criticize someone you can't bring an ad hominem attack and say just because

you haven't done something doesn't invalidate ideas ideas ideas should be

judged on their merit based upon logic.

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