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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.5	Normal is broken. Common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:19.5	From the Ramsey Network in the Fairwinds Credit Union Studio.
0:24.0	This is The Ramsey Show.
0:27.2	Thrilled to have you with us.
0:28.8	AAA 8255225 alongside the refreshed new father.
0:34.2	Got a good night's sleep last night.
0:35.7	That means he's going to be extra good at helping you folks today on the money issues. George Camel, my dear friend. And then I'm Ken Coleman. If you're new to the show, welcome, welcome, welcome. I'll help you make more money. George is going to help you keep more money. That's the combo. And so we're going to get right to it. Kate's joining us in California. Kate, how can we help today?
0:56.1	Hello. Thank you so much for taking my call. My husband and I have been married for almost two years now.
1:02.5	And when we came into the marriage together, we both owned a house. And the house that he has, we live in right now, and it's paid off.
1:10.4	The house that I have is in a different city.
1:13.9	That's where I was living before.
1:15.4	And I still have a mortgage on it.
1:18.0	It's worth about $500, and my mortgage has $3.25 left.
1:22.9	We pay every month, but then we have renters, and it covers most of it,
1:27.4	but we're losing about
1:28.1	$200 per month with the property management fees. And we're trying to decide. We chip away at every, we do every dollar, and we're on baby's up six. We're doing great, but we chip away at the mortgage every month. Whatever we have left over, we spend towards the mortgage, and we're trying to chip away at it, but we're trying to decide if we should keep doing that, or if it's, and it's worth to keep in the
1:48.8	house, or if it's just going to be too much and we should let it go.
1:53.7	Let me ask you a question.
1:54.9	I want you to speak on behalf of your husband.
1:56.3	I think you're qualified.
1:59.1	Do you enjoy losing a couple hundred bucks a month on that house?
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