More Debt Is Never the Way out of a Tough Situation

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:14.5	Live from the Ramsey Network, it's the Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create amazing
0:21.7	relationships.
0:22.8	I'm George Camel, joined by Jade Warshong.
0:25.2	We're taking your calls at AAA 825-5-225.
0:29.9	You call in.
0:30.5	We'll help you take the right next step for your life and your money.
0:34.9	Courtney's going to kick us off in Oklahoma City.
0:37.3	What's going on, Courtney?
0:39.4	Hi.
0:40.2	I just have a question about home repairs,
0:43.6	and basically the route we should go on if we are trying to not get,
0:48.6	but we do currently live in a home that is proving to be not actually livable.
0:56.0	Are we talking like black mold or is it like I don't like the kitchen?
1:00.8	No, no.
1:01.5	We're talking about extensive mold.
1:03.3	When we got testing done, it didn't come back as anything majorly toxic, but obviously
1:08.4	it's just not currently ideal deal situation to live in.
1:13.3	So that's interesting to me. So you got it tested and they said it's not overly toxic. Does
1:17.9	that just mean they can remediate it, move on and no one's concerned? They can remediate it,
1:23.4	but the problem is the space that was added on to the house before we moved in was improperly
1:32.4	ventilated. We actually didn't know this, but they built on top of a crawl space, and then they just
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