Why I Hate Debt Pt. 1: Cash
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Jesse hates debt, and you should too. Debt service constricts our cash flow, limits out ability to do other things like savings and investing, and generally introduces more stress into our lives. In this first part of a mini-series on debt, Jesse makes a case for living completely debt-free.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 405 for Wineab, where we teach |
| 0:09.8 | you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:15.2 | Why I hate debt, I'm going to do a little series. |
| 0:17.8 | For the next several weeks, I'm going to give you all the reasons. |
| 0:21.1 | Maybe not a thorough, totally complete list, but I'm going to give you the high-level list for sure. |
| 0:26.0 | Why I hate debt every single Monday all through December. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, we could be talking about being merry and happy with holidays and spending and |
| 0:35.5 | delicious food and friends and family. |
| 0:37.7 | No, we're going to talk about debt and why I hate it. |
| 0:41.9 | Because sometimes in our quest to have everyone set their own priorities |
| 0:46.6 | to abstain from opinion, as it were, |
| 0:49.6 | I don't always share my thoughts. And being the adult that you are, I will let you take |
| 0:56.8 | my thoughts as you will. But I've thought a lot about this and I've boiled it down to a few reasons why I absolutely hate when people carry debt. |
| 1:08.8 | I've carried it myself, just to give you a little background, I carried it on a personal residence, paid that off, and then I started buying rental properties, I mean, a little here and there back in 2012 13 14 and carried very very |
| 1:29.5 | modest mortgages on those they cash flow very nicely because the mortgages were so |
| 1:35.1 | modest and then bought another, not another, you know, sold my personal house, |
| 1:41.0 | bought another one, had a mortgage on that one. |
| 1:44.0 | In the ensuing years, we've paid off all that. |
| 1:47.2 | The rentals paid off the mortgages, we paid off the house, and I'm back to no debt again, and |
| 1:52.2 | I love it. I'll debt again and I love it. |
| 1:53.0 | I'll tell you why I love it and that will frame the first portion which is why I hate it. |
| 1:59.0 | The reason dead is so lousy is because it takes away your cash. |
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