Chris (Caller)

$1,000.

I'd say, I want to try and save up about, like, $4,000.

Right.

And I guess, like, another question is, it's just, like, I feel like expenses, they just, like, come out of nowhere.

Like, for me, prom is something that I was, like, planning to do.

But, like, now that I do the every dollar budget, like,

I'm just now seeing how this stuff adds up.

Hey, y'all.

Thanks for having me.

I'm just trying to figure out how much house my wife and I can afford if we plan on paying cash.

Well, we have in checking and savings accounts, we have about $500,000.

And then in brokerage accounts and other investment accounts, we have about $2 million.

And then we have a rental property as well that's about $400,000 that's paid off.

So I guess ultimately what we're trying to figure out is how much can we afford without jeopardizing our future?

Uh, mostly, uh, unfortunately when my, my, uh, wife's mother passed away, a large chunk of it was, uh, an inheritance.

Um, so that's where a majority of that came from.

Well, it

You know, somewhere around there, we're also in the middle of a life decision.

The state that we're originally from is a lot more expensive than Texas, and family is there.

And with my wife just graduating, we're trying to figure out whether we want to be here or there.