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What's going on, Maria?

Hi, thanks for taking my call. So I purchased a home from a meth addict and I'm now $33,000 in debt because I had to do remediation on the home after I closed.

And I'm just curious how I should best pay this off and salvage my credit.

I did receive a settlement from the owner after discovering this problem, but I still have probably 80K and repairs to make to the home.

And I'm just curious how I can pay it down and salvage my credit.

So how much total debt do you have outside of a mortgage?

The $32,000. I don't have any other debt outside of my mortgage.

How many cards is that across?

Across three cards.

How much money are you bringing in every month?

I'm bringing in about $4,000, no, probably $5,500.

$5,500.

And then what portion of that is your mortgage payment

2,800 yipes all right we got troubles we got troubles so tell me a little bit more about this

did you call it a remediation yeah so, so they had to rip out the kitchen, all the doors, all the lighting, anything porous, anything wood.

So I basically bought the home and then they stripped it.

I found out two days after closing that she had a drone problem. That's my question. No, yeah, none of this come up in the inspection that's

my question no yeah none of it came up in the inspection so how did it come up I received a police

report that I had requested um two days after closing I had received every other police report and they

have some police activity at this property because

I did my due diligence and I looked through it.

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