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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Should We Wait Out the Real Estate Market?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The Ramsey Call of the Day is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, and George Kamel. Part of the Ramsey Network. Delivered to you five days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

0:10.8

Today's question comes from Mike in Texas.

0:13.6

He says, my wife and I are debt-free except our mortgage and a 401k loan that we use to pay off consumer debt.

0:19.5

We desperately want to move out, but we apparently miss the best time to sell our home.

0:25.3

It's a beautiful house on a big corner lot.

0:27.6

Since interest rates went up dramatically, our home just sits on the market.

0:31.4

We've dropped our asking price as low as we can.

0:34.4

Do we need to be patient with the current housing market,

0:36.6

or take it off the market and try

0:39.0

again next year? Good question from Mike. So it was an amazing time. It's still a good time to sell the home.

0:49.2

So there may be other factors here, Dave, that we don't know about about this home sitting on the

0:53.4

market. Yeah, that's probably true. We don't know about, about this home sitting on the market.

0:56.0

Yeah, that's probably true.

0:58.6

We don't know how long it's been sitting either. He hasn't said.

1:05.0

I mean, I have met people who put their house on the market and two weeks later are panicking because it hasn't sold.

1:10.8

That's the question. Has it been two weeks or has it been four months? There's a difference. Or has it been four years? I don't know. I mean, I missed it.

1:12.9

I missed the one chance.

1:15.5

No, you didn't.

1:18.0

So here's the thing.

1:19.3

I don't know if you have an unrealistic view of what the house is worth.

1:23.6

We've taken it as low as we can.

1:26.1

What does that mean?

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