Everyone Makes Financial Mistakes – Don’t Let Yours Define You

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the every dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.9	From the Ramsey Network, it's the Ramsey show. The only live show where we talk about your life and your money with actual callers calling in George.
0:21.0	I am your host, Jade Warshot next to me, as I just said, George, as in George Camel.
0:25.6	The no last name. I'm like, share.
0:27.8	George, the George, taking calls about your life and money, like I said.
0:32.1	You can call in at any point.
0:33.5	The number of AAA 825-5-225.
0:36.0	If you call in and you have to leave a message, that's a good thing.
0:38.6	It means we'll try to get you on the show at a later date.
0:41.8	We're going to go straight to the phone lines where we have Brenda in Dallas, Texas.
0:45.9	Brenda, how can we help today?
0:49.1	Hi, I'm calling because in October of last year, my husband and I made the dumb, dumb, dumb decision
0:56.3	of taking out a bridge loan to purchase a property.
1:01.3	Okay.
1:01.7	And we, it was with the idea that we would sell our previous property and pay off the loan,
1:09.2	restructure the loan, and everything would be great.
1:12.7	But we haven't been able to sell our old property, and the loan is due on June 1st.
1:17.2	Interest has accrued, like nobody's business.
1:21.3	What was the interest rate, and then what was the amount?
1:24.8	So the total, they combined both properties, came out to 1.437 at 10.99.
1:33.3	10.99? Yeah. So apparently bridge loans, they explained to us, are always high interest like this.
1:41.9	They're anywhere between 8 and 12.
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