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The Ramsey Show Highlights

We're Worth $40 Million and Still Have Money Problems

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Well, we have a predicament. We have a very high net worth, but right now our financial advisor is suggesting that we take a loan out on our vacation property, which is paid in full. There's no mortgage there to help supplement our income since our money

0:22.4

is not liquid. What is your net worth, huh? About 40 million. Oh, my word. And you don't have

0:30.1

enough income coming in off of 40 million. So it's a little tricky. 30 of that is invested in the husband's business, which is close to about a billion-dollar business,

0:42.0

but we can only touch that when we're allowed to touch it.

0:46.1

I'm sorry.

0:46.9

If it's your business, why are you not allowed to touch it?

0:50.3

So he's not on the board.

0:52.6

So the board makes the decision on who gets money when.

0:56.4

I thought it was your husband's business. Wait, who owns it?

0:59.0

So he's one of the owners in the business. Who's the majority shareholder?

1:06.0

There's a handful of people who own the chunk of it. He's one of those people.

1:12.1

But he is not on the board of directors,

1:13.7

so he doesn't get to make the decision on when redemptions can be made.

1:18.6

So, wow.

1:21.9

Yeah.

1:22.4

So the, well, that's 30 million, but you still got 10 million.

1:25.2

You can't, you don't have anything in that that's creating income?

1:28.0

Okay, so we've got four in retirement, four million in retirement.

1:32.8

He brings in about 400 a year, and he's 100% commission based on what he does.

1:39.1

So what do you need money for if you make 400 a year?

1:42.6

So what we were hoping to do and what we had been doing

1:46.3

with the redeeming shares each year, then come to find out that we can't redeem every single

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