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Up first, this hour, we have Chris in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Hey Chris, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking my call.

Absolutely, how can we help? So I'm asking this question for my daughter and her fiance.

And I wanted you guys to give your best explanation of why you should not buy a house together before you are married.

Oh, I like that.

So, I mean, the first thing is there's no legal protections.

I mean, you're kind of just his word against her word and you're commingling money together, and so at the end of the day if it doesn't work out

there's not really a process in place to decide who gets what. That would be my first thought.

Okay so we That would be my first thought. Okay, so with you saying that, of course, nobody goes into a marriage thinking that it's not going to work out and these two are no different. But they both still live at home, they both have jobs, she's in

college and she's finishing up a teaching degree which she's going to take her

three years to do that and they're scared to get married in April of 26.

They're trying to understand how you wait until you're married to buy a house because they say well where we're going to live at?

Well that's a good question and I tell me you got to look at Rennie and if they decide to wait, I mean you to explain to them why that's a good thing, I guess, is what I'm saying.

To wait to get married or to wait to not buy the house together.

Wait to not buy the house together. I think they understand the finance part of it, but I think they're like if

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