Don’t Let a Lack of Boundaries Turn Into a Money Crisis

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:11.2	Normal is broken. Common Sense is weird. We're here to help you transform your life.
0:18.0	From the Ramsey Network and the Fairwinds Credit Union Studio.
0:21.7	This is The Ramsey Show.
0:23.5	I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, number one bestselling author, host of front row seat, Ken Coleman.
0:28.1	Ramsey personality is my co-host.
0:30.2	The phone number here is free, and some say the advice is worth what you pay for it.
0:34.7	The number is AAA-825-2-2-25. Aaron is with us in San Francisco. Hi,
0:41.7	Erin. How are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you guys? Thank you. Good. How can we help?
0:48.6	So I just kind of want to know what to do in my situation and if I'm just being a brat. So my boyfriend and I,
0:57.8	we've moved in together into his house. His house is fully paid off, but it's managed in a
1:03.3	trust by his mom. I have my own house as well that I got a mortgage on before we met,
1:09.6	and I paid $3,000 a month.
1:12.2	We want to move into my home and rent out his home, but his mother is stopping us from doing
1:19.1	that and she's not going to allow us to fix up his home or anything to get at rental ready.
1:25.1	I just, I just feel bad because now I'm paying a mortgage on a home and
1:30.0	it's just sitting empty. I'm not really sure what to do.
1:35.3	Hmm. Wow. So it's not really his house. No. It's really owned by a trust.
1:46.4	His mother is the trustee.
1:48.7	Yes.
1:49.3	Yeah.
1:49.8	If she ever sold it, he would always get the proceeds.
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