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Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

Should We Pay Off Our House Before Investing?

Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

Ramsey Network

Careers, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Listen to how ordinary people built extraordinary wealth - and how you can too. You’ll learn how millionaires live on less than they make, avoid debt, invest, are disciplined and responsible! Featuring hosts from the Ramsey Network: Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, John Delony, George Kamel & Jade Warshaw. Helpful Resources: Need Help with your investments? Click here to connect with a SmartVestor Pro. To learn more about how to plan for Retirement click here To learn more about Investing click here Create a college savings plan for your child’s future. Click here to connect with a SmartVestor Pro. Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:11.0

Com slash invest.

0:22.0

You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires where we talk investing, retirement, building wealth and outrageous generosity. Jeremy's in Cincinnati.

0:24.0

Hi Jeremy, welcome to the Ramsey Show.

0:26.0

Hey Dave, Jade, glad to be on the show.

0:29.0

Honored to have you, how can we help?

0:31.0

Yeah, so I guess the basic point of my question, and I know you guys usually would shoot

0:36.7

this down pretty quickly, but it's basically, can my wife and I are on baby step four, five, and

0:41.2

six, and I wanted to know if we could kind of skip

0:44.4

baby steps four and five and just hit six with everything we got and so a little

0:48.8

bit of background we didn't really have much of a baby step two. We are only 25. We both just turned 25 in last couple months.

0:57.0

Last fall we bought our first house and found out we were pregnant shortly after and we just had our first baby boy in April of this year.

1:07.0

Congratulations.

1:08.0

A lot going on.

1:10.0

Yeah, no, it definitely was worth than we anticipated, but it's been a good time.

1:16.2

So, yeah, so we have a combined income of about 120,000, and our mortgage is about $195 and we were considering I'm an

1:26.4

accountant by trade and so I run the numbers like crazy much to my wife's you

1:30.8

know a pleasure I guess no and and I was like figuring out that we could if we just

1:37.0

focus on the house we could be not even 29 and I have a paid for home and then being as young as we are that we could catch up on investing pretty quickly

1:46.5

and still retire with millions even if we just did 15% of that form.

1:49.9

Okay. So your question is what? Should you do that or what?

1:55.0

Yeah, but it would be okay to kind of focus on that house first, get it out of the way, have more income to invest.

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