"Can I Stop Investing to Pay for a Car?"
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jim V's question is up next. |
| 0:07.0 | He says, Question for the Money Guy Show, we have two teens in college, their college is fully |
| 0:16.0 | funded, and their Roth IRA is started. |
| 0:19.6 | How else can we help our kids for the next 10 to 15 years? |
| 0:24.0 | We have no financial worries. |
| 0:25.5 | So they're kind of like, how do we maximize and set our kids up |
| 0:28.1 | for even more success? |
| 0:30.0 | Well, I have a thought. |
| 0:32.3 | And this will sound terse, you have a college, |
| 0:34.8 | you have a college kid, so you can tell me if this is insensitive, |
| 0:37.5 | but I think about this, right? |
| 0:38.6 | My kids are not quite yet in college, not even really. Not quite. But one of the things that I think to myself is as they go off to college, I've |
| 0:48.7 | recognized the influence that I'm going to have on them will be much less than when I had them in the household. |
| 0:53.8 | So a lot of the heavy lifting I need to do around, setting them up and teaching them how to think about money and teaching them how to make wise financial decisions really |
| 1:03.6 | is to happen before they leave the house because once they're out of the house |
| 1:07.3 | they're a little bit out of my control at that point they're a little bit out of |
| 1:12.1 | the influence that I get to have on them. |
| 1:14.7 | So it's wonderful that you guys are in a fantastic financial situation. |
| 1:19.1 | I think it's great that you said your kids have started Roth IRAs. Now I would be curious, did they start |
| 1:25.9 | Roth IRAs? Did they have some part or some piece of that or did you start Roth IRAs |
| 1:31.4 | on their behalf? Because we see this happen both ways. |
| 1:33.7 | And in my opinion, the kids that generally turn out |
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