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The Ramsey Show

Should We Buy an Investment Property Right Now? (Hour 2)

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.538.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dave Ramsey & Jade Warshaw answer your questions and discuss: "Should we buy an investment property before our own home?" "I feel guilty spending money on fun things" "How much should we throw at our mortgage?" Helping parents with their finances. Support Our Sponsor: PODS Moving & Storage Neighborly Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET Join a Personality-led FPU class. Click here! Enter The Ramsey Cash Giveaway for a chance at $3,000! https://bit.ly/TRSgvwy Shop our bestsellers during the $10 Sale! https://bit.ly/TRS10Sale Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: https://bit.ly/3cEP4n6 Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: https://bit.ly/3GxiXm6 Interested in advertising on The Ramsey Show? https://ter.li/s64ye3 Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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Live from the headquarters of Ramsay Solutions, broadcasting from the pods removed.

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How it starts at about between $700,000.

2:07.0

That's true.

2:11.0

How much do you guys make a year?

2:15.0

Maybe back walk, the why behind our answer.

2:23.0

Personal residence is a key element paid off of the first $1,000,000,000 worth of work that people build.

2:31.0

Not investment property.

2:35.0

Statistically speaking.

2:39.0

Personal residence that creates a reasonable standard of living, not necessarily opulence, but certainly not living in a camping trailer out back a mall's house.

2:51.0

That's not what we're doing, but a personal residence that gives you a reasonable, sustainable level of standard of living creates stabilization in your relationships.

3:05.0

Your health is better.

3:07.0

Your career has more of a tendency to prosper.

3:11.0

The budget prosper because the largest line item in everyone's personal budget until they're very wealthy is their home.

3:19.0

When you get control of the largest line item and stabilize it by buying a home or paying cash for it or not, but getting it paid off very soon, you have a higher tendency to prosper because your health is better.

3:37.0

Your relationships are better.

3:39.0

There's tons of data around home ownership that indicates those things.

3:43.0

Okay, so another question for you because we're looking into buying a house or we only, so we live in my parents' town home right now and we only spend $1,000 a month on that.

3:57.0

I also would feel guilty going out and spending almost $3,000 on a mortgage compared to where I'm only spending $1,000 a month in rent, but I'm only renting it's not an asset.

4:08.0

Exactly.

4:10.0

Okay.

4:11.0

So you're making $100,000 a year and you buy a home with $300,000 down and then you map out how quickly we can pay off that home.

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