Rachel Cruz

But it seems like some of the people I've got that are close to me have advised against this.

And I wanted to ask the pros, and they listened to the show, so I'm excited to hear what you guys have to say.

I bought the house for $250,000, put about $30,000 down, so I've got about $220,000 roughly.

Yeah, so actually I sold both vehicles that I had at the time, and now I'm driving around in beaters.

Roughly $130,000 a year.

Okay.

So I make the house payment in less than a week, but the main motivator for why I'm doing what I'm doing or thinking of doing what I'm doing is

And, you know, I could basically come out even if I rented that and stayed in the shop house, I could have my bills paid for for free, basically.

She, so we live in the house currently and she doesn't want to move out into the shop house, even though I think it's nice enough for us.

So for me, it's making sense from a lot of different angles.

She is a gym coach for little girls, and they actually went to the Junior Olympics this year.

That's sweet.

That was really nice.

I love for her to follow her dreams.

And then I decided to start a business last July and I'm generating through that business after, after like in, in profit after,

I'm bringing in about half of my income, um, from that I make at my day job.

Now we did have about eight grand in debt because of that starting the whole business and everything.

And then, uh, we just used our taxes to pay that back like substantially.

So now we only have about two grand in debt.

Um,