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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Girlfriend Is Considering a Debt Relief Company

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Brought to you by Y-ReFi.

0:04.1

Refinance your defaulted private student loans today at Y-refi.com slash Ramsey.

0:10.4

Okay, make a long story short.

0:12.6

I'm in between Baby Step 1 and Baby Step 2.

0:15.5

You know, things going good.

0:16.9

Stuff breaks.

0:18.1

Spend my $1,000.

0:19.6

Got to rebuild Baby Step one uh i got my girlfriend

0:22.8

she's kind of stuck with me too we want to be married to have a family she has 21 000

0:28.7

in credit card debt she found this company accredited debt relief they offered us a payment of

0:35.3

three hundred forty two dollars a month for 48 months.

0:39.7

That's to pay off the credit cards.

0:41.6

The problem is that's only $16,400.

0:44.3

I don't understand how this could work.

0:46.6

Okay.

0:48.5

Because it's the same as filing bankruptcy.

0:52.2

It's going to destroy her credit.

0:57.8

Here's the way they work. Stay away from them. Stay away from them, but here's why. Okay? The way they work is when you sign up with them,

1:02.7

they take over all of your payments. And the first thing they do is they stop making any payments.

1:08.8

And they let all the credit cards go into default if they're not there already.

1:14.1

And so they go into default and the credit card companies then will settle a bad debt.

1:22.0

Now she will be in collections on every one of them and then they'll settle the bad debt

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