How to Make Your Entire Living on Craigslist: Interview with Ryan Finlay from ReCraigslist RPF0059

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 11 September 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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What would you do if you were $25,000 in credit card debt, unemployed, and had $200 to your name? Would you go get a job or would you start buying and selling stuff on Craigslist to dig out of your hole? Our guest today is Ryan Finlay. He found himself in exactly the same situation […]

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0:00.0	What would you do if you were 29 years old?
0:03.8	Were deeply in debt with over $25,000 of credit card debt,
0:08.4	had $200 in your checking account,
0:11.4	and had five children to support.
0:14.0	Where would you start?
0:17.0	Would you start with buying and selling stuff on Craigslist. Welcome my friends,
0:35.0	friends, welcome radicals. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance
0:41.0	Podcast for today, Thursday, September the 11th, 2014.
0:46.3	This is episode 59.
0:48.4	My guest today is a man named Ryan Finley, and yes yes that is his story. He paid off 25,000 bucks of credit card
0:57.2	debt in four years with buying and selling stuff on Craigslist. I'm not sure that's where I would start if I were in that situation, but I certainly was inspired when I first started reading Ryan's story.
1:17.0	And I think you'll be inspired after hearing it.
1:20.0	And there were a number of amazing lessons that we can learn from his experiences.
1:24.3	I first heard about Ryan several years ago and started reading his website, which is re-Cregslist.
1:29.8	And today I have for you an in-depth interview with him and we're going to talk in the beginning
1:34.7	about his story, find out what he learned, then towards the end we're going to talk through
1:38.5	some of his tips for buying and selling stuff on Craigslist, how to get top dollar and how to get deals.
1:44.0	Remember, this is a man who has made his full-time living on Craigslist,
1:49.0	supporting his family for the last four years.
1:52.0	So if anybody knows anything about how to get good deals and how to get top dollar,
1:57.9	I think he would be a good person to listen to.
2:00.8	Enjoy the interview.
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