Should I Co-Sign On A House With My Girlfriend's Mom?
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4.5 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If your private student loans are in default, you're not out of options. |
| 0:06.6 | Go to whyrefi.com slash Ramsey. |
| 0:08.8 | Do you guys think college students nowadays have a better chance of being just as or more successful than our parents in today's world? |
| 0:17.3 | And I ask this because as a college student myself, it's about to graduate |
| 0:21.4 | with no student debt, I have $50,000 saved and I have a job lined up. Fortunately, but unfortunately |
| 0:28.5 | inside of the state, I live in and away from family. I'm nervous to move out. And I know a lot of people |
| 0:34.3 | my age and this situation feel the same way. But I know a lot of people are age and the situation feel the same way. |
| 0:42.1 | But I know a lot of people are nervous and don't know if they can move out financially. |
| 0:50.0 | But do you think people in today's world have the same chance that our parents did? |
| 0:57.7 | And also people in my situation, what can you give to them that don't know if they can move out financially? |
| 1:07.8 | Well, you do have the same chance. I don't think, you know, you get into a crazy game if you start going, well, what are the changes back in the 60s? And, you know, and that probably seems like ancient history to you. |
| 1:13.1 | But no, I think college students have the same exact chances of being successful. |
| 1:18.1 | I think they have some things that are going in their favor. |
| 1:20.1 | I think that older generations, you might be able to say, well, maybe they had a couple |
| 1:23.8 | advantages because of this. |
| 1:26.2 | But the one that sticks out to me, George, is the student loan issue that just was not a |
| 1:31.3 | handicap to people that are older. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.7 | But in your case, Jeremy, you, you're the asterisk. |
| 1:38.6 | You don't have any debt. |
| 1:41.7 | So I think the second question is the one that we can tackle, and that is how do you overcome this barrier to entry, this thought process that, oh, I can't live on my own or I can't move away. |
| 1:58.0 | George, you want to tackle that one first? I've got thoughts. |
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