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The Ramsey Show

Making Good Financial Decisions Is Hard (but Worth It)

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.538.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Cruze & Jade Warshaw answer your questions and discuss: "Should I take out a loan from a family member?" "Should I have more than $1000 in Baby Step 1," "My parents lost their business, how can I help?" "The real truth about Christmas gifts," "How should I save for a house?" Why it's sometimes hard to make wise money decisions "I'm scared to tithe while on Baby Step 2," "I'm not happy with our affordable vacations," "My husband is about to file bankruptcy" "Should I leave my job?" "How can I best pay off debt?" "Should we cash out investments to pay off debt?" "Should we move closer to family?" "I'm $42K in debt and just lost my job" Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET Support Our Sponsors: Churchill Mortgage Christian Healthcare Ministries NetSuite Zander Insurance Neighborly Cyber Monday Deals are here! Shop meaningful gifts for as low as $7 this week only! Click Here For help with investing, get connected with a SmartVestor Pro: Click Here Protect yourself with the right coverage—Take our Coverage Quiz! Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: Click Here Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: Click Here Interested in advertising on The Ramsey Show? Click Here Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

The Oh, Live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, it's the Ramsey Show where we help people build

0:34.8

wealth, do work that they love, and create amazing relationships.

0:39.2

I am Ramsey Personality.

0:41.1

Rachel Cruz hosting this hour with my good friend and Ramsey

0:44.4

personality Jay to Warsaw and we're answering your questions life, money,

0:48.7

relationships, career, anything and everything. Give us a call. The first up in Gainesville Florida we have

0:55.4

Cameron on the line. Hey Cameron welcome to the show. Howdy thank you. So my

1:03.2

parents just sold their house in Texas and they can got a considerable amount of money for it

1:08.4

and they're currently in the process of basically planning for their future and recently also purchased a house in Gainesville, Florida, which is part investment property. I'm living there at the same time that kind of renting out rooms in addition to it. And my father brought up to me, hey, with all this extra money that we now have, you know,

1:27.8

would you like us to pay off your house and then that way you'll just pay us back instead of paying back the bank.

1:36.0

And I've kind of heard before you know Dave talk about not going to take money from

1:40.2

family members and I kind of just want to hear y'all's perspective on it the pros and the cons here.

1:45.6

Yeah I mean I think if you look at the pros side sometimes families in the situation

1:51.1

they do it with less interest and all this stuff but I

1:54.6

think honestly Cameron there's just more cons in this because I think the math

1:59.6

side sometimes can play into people and they're like oh well I don't they're not going

2:04.0

charge me interest or like whatever the deal is that's a better deal than the bank

2:07.8

but here's the truth I'm like it's a house

2:09.5

number one you're not talking about like we're going to pay off a five thousand

2:13.6

car it's your house and so for now and in the next foreseeable five ten years

2:20.9

you're going to be having Christmases and family dinners and you're going to want

2:24.8

Cameron to go on a great trip and they may be thinking wow why is he going on a trip

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