I'm 19 with $115,000 in Debt
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought you by Y-ReFi. Refinance your defaulted private student loans today at Y-ReFi.com slash Ramsey. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm $15,000 in medical debt as of right now, and I'm 19 years old. |
| 0:16.5 | Oh, man. What happened? Give us the quick version of what happened. |
| 0:20.2 | Three months ago, I got into a high crash, into a car crash at about 60 miles an hour, broke both my legs, |
| 0:26.8 | and had to spend a week or two in the hospital, and I've been out of work for the last three months. |
| 0:32.5 | What's the status on being able to get back to work? |
| 0:36.1 | I'm just now able to kind of waddle around my house like a penguin, |
| 0:40.0 | but I'm walking still not that great right now, and the doctors are kind of telling me that I'm |
| 0:46.5 | not going to be able to go back to construction for the next year or two, at least. So is there a, |
| 0:52.5 | is there a settlement coming out of this? |
| 0:54.4 | I mean, were you at fault, or are you going to get paid off of this? |
| 0:57.7 | I think I was at fault, if I believe correctly, yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | Oh, that's tough, my man. |
| 1:03.5 | That's real tough. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.7 | And my, my, sorry for interrupting. |
| 1:08.3 | No, go ahead. |
| 1:09.9 | Well, my question was, is that at 19, I've kind of been given two options of how to |
| 1:17.0 | handle the $115,000 of debt that I'm in, and it's to either, you know, counter them |
| 1:22.3 | and say that I'm not going to pay it and agree on a lower settlement of, you know, 60 to 80,000 |
| 1:27.1 | or whatever, or to just not pay it and let it really, you know, 60 to 80,000 or whatever, or to just not pay it |
| 1:30.0 | and let it really, you know, hit my credit score and let the credit score drop. And I don't know |
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