"Does This Sound As Crazy To You As It Does Me?"
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.0 | So me and my wife were 24, fresh out of college a few years ago. So we decided to build a home, our forever home. |
| 0:15.0 | And the cost kind of got out of control our parents stepped in my parents stepped in me |
| 0:21.0 | and my wife been blessed to have our parents buy her side they actually followed your |
| 0:24.6 | financial piece back in 2000 there's a different story behind that but they're very |
| 0:29.1 | they've accumulated some vault over the years they've handed us over a lump sum of |
| 0:33.0 | money to help us build this house and whatever's left, we will pay back in a mortgage payment to them. |
| 0:41.0 | Me and my wife make about $130,000 a year before taxes with a commission bonus for myself |
| 0:48.4 | at the end of the year. |
| 0:49.4 | So my question is, and we do have a good amount of savings from the past years of working, about $120,000 |
| 0:56.4 | in savings. |
| 0:57.8 | Okay, I'm sorry, if you have $120,000 in savings, why the flip did your parents have to give |
| 1:02.8 | you money? |
| 1:04.9 | They have been working so hard their whole life to set their kids up, and so they want to |
| 1:10.6 | help every single one of their kids out. And so they want to help every single |
| 1:12.0 | one of their kids out. I'm one of three brothers. Yeah, but you may it sound like you got in trouble and they bailed you out. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, so what happened with the house? You got, you bought too much house? What's the deal with the house? Yeah, so we're building. Oh, you're still building. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah, we're still building. |
| 1:27.2 | We're in the foundation phase right now. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, you just started building. |
| 1:30.7 | Yes, so... So we're building. Oh, you're still building? Yeah, we're still building. We're in the foundation phase right now. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, you just started building. |
| 1:30.7 | Yes, so the deal was with them was we can collaborate with them. |
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