Steven Pope

It took us about four months.

$230,000.

I'm a physician.

Most of it was student loans, obviously, being a physician.

And I guess we didn't really know what to do with money.

So back when I graduated residency, we had over $600,000 of debt.

Most of it was medical school, and I felt a moral obligation to pay it off.

And we were slowly chipping away at it, but we didn't have any plan or direction for

And then COVID ended up hitting.

And fortunately, I work in an industry where I was able to keep earning a fair amount of money.

And then...

Yeah, it got to a point where I was in a toxic work environment, and I was just living not necessarily paycheck to paycheck because we were investing in real estate at the same time as being a physician.

And I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired, as you guys always say.

And I didn't want my children to have to deal with the stress that I was bringing home from work.

So in the fall of last year, we found you guys for the first time.

And at that point, we had knocked it down about $350,000.

But we realized if we liquidated everything, we could pay it off really quickly.

What did you sell?

Well, no.

We sold our main home, and so the rental contract was up in February, and we just told our tenant, who was a wonderful... Oh, so you were able to move directly in.