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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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We love being together. Jade's going to help you on the money issues. I'll weigh in. I'll dive in on the income. She'll help out on that as well. That's what we're talking about. More income. Getting rid of debt. We have a great group of people, fabulous looking group of people out in the lobby today watching. You can come watch the show anytime that we're on.
So go to ramsaysolutions.com, look at the schedule. We'd love to see you. Come out and say hi during the breaks and all that jazz. And it's always good to have folks staring at us like we're zoo animals. Speak for yourself, Ken. Yeah, well, there's some lovely zoo animals. I would put you as a peacock, maybe.
Okay, I'll take that.
You okay with that one?
I'll take a peacock.
Don't tell me what I am. I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. Here we go. Manuel or Manuel? I never know. Manuel. I say Manuel. Let's see. St. Louis, Missouri. What say you? It's Manuel. It's Manuel, but I'll say Manuel. All right. No, no. We've got to call you by your name, Manuel. So how can we help?
Hi. All right. So I'm about to graduate from college with a degree in mechanical engineering in about a year. Nice. But my dream career is to be a prosthetist. And you have to go to grad school for three years. And that's going to be about $160,000. Plus, there's only like eight schools in America that have it. And the closest one to me is Chicago. So far, I've cash flowed all of college.
And I want to cash flow grad school, but that's going to take like six years, I assume, to save up all that money. And I didn't know if it would be best to just go ahead and take out a loan. And like pay it off later when I get my career or to go ahead, work as an engineer, save up money. But I don't know where I'll be in life in like,
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Chapter 2: How can I balance my career with family expectations?
Still? No, no, not anymore. That's what I thought.
We appreciate the reason, but the advice is still correct.
It doesn't change what I think that you should do, and I get that I'm just a radio person that you called into. Let's get to the crux of what you want to do, which is you want to travel more. You're on the right track. You have to put in the budget. So, This is just a matter of you getting very detailed on what that looks like. Where are you traveling to? How often are you trying to travel?
And really being detailed on what it's actually going to be costing and letting those items be reflected in your line items. So if you're saying, all right, where's one place that you have family?
So I can give you an example. Um, last, uh, about two years, I think it's been two years already. I met up with my uncle. We actually went to the world cup in Qatar together. So that's one place that we traveled to. He happens to live in Romania and then his brother, which is my uncle lives in Spain. And then I have a family in Mexico.
So it's kind of between like Europe, Mexico, and those areas.
So when you went to Qatar, what was the problem or was there a problem? I'm guessing that you budgeted to go because you said you don't have any debt. So tell me where the problem lies.
So the problem is I also have this thing where it hurts me when I have to start taking money out of my account. For some reason, it bothers me. I got to a point in my life where even though I know I have, a good emergency fund. Yeah. And my checking account is still good. It starts to bother me when it goes down.
It might feel a little excessive. Like here, here's what you have to decide the tension between. You said that it's important for you to see your family, but we also know that your family, it sounds like is spread across continents and countries. So it can, when you're making $4,000 a month, I'm just going to be honest with you.
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Chapter 3: What are the pros and cons of financing a new house?
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This is a safe place, and I'm telling you, when you talk about money, when you talk about your work... You know, your income, you talk about your relationships, it's very vulnerable. And I just want you to know that we're here to help you as a caller. You aren't a prop. You are the reason we do the show and you represent millions of people who can connect to you.
So I just wanted to say that if you're new, welcome, but feel safe. That phone number is for you, and we want to help you win. Jade Warshaw is alongside of me. I'm Ken Coleman. We're your friends. I promise. 888-825-5225. All right. Up north we go. New Haven, Connecticut. That's where Chris is waiting. Chris, how can we help? Hey, thanks for taking my call. How are you doing?
We're having a blast. What's going on? So, more question for you. Hoping you can help me out. Okay. Love my job. Absolutely love it. Been there for about two years. I work for a very big company, so you can kind of see where I'm going here. And I've heard stories about this all the time, but I was hoping it would never happen to me, is that everyone loves my work, everyone loves what I do.
I have no problems with the people I work with at all, but I was promised a promotion at my most recent review. It's not like I was begging for one. It was discussed heavily. And, well, it's been quite a few months and it still hasn't happened yet. So I absolutely love what I do, but how do I be a little more aggressive in pushing for that without burning bridges? Sure. All right, let's go back.
So you said you weren't begging for it. Did you bring it up or did your leader bring it up in the review, this idea? My leader did initially. Interesting.
Did they give you a timeline?
No.
And did they discuss any comp? They discussed a potential increase. Nothing specific.
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Chapter 4: How can I budget to have fun while traveling?
But I do wonder why you have a Roth IRA that you no longer contribute to because if you have a pension, we would still say that you're investing a certain percentage into separate retirement funds and a Roth IRA would be a perfect place to start.
Sure, sure. So I do have a separate one. It's The lot that I was talking about, I was actually in charge of and I was managing. I changed that to what we call a deferred compensation. So I do have money coming out into a separate retirement account. It's just that this particular lot is no longer receiving any contributions.
Okay. And the deferred compensation, where is it going? What's it going into?
I believe it's a pre-taxed account. Um, and it's, it's managed by, uh, a third party. It's obviously not, not managed by me.
Okay. And are you choosing the investments?
Uh, no.
Okay. So back to, back to what I said, um, and I'll get to the, the, the rest of the question, but this is really important, uh, for you and anybody else listening. When you have something like a pension or deferred compensation, that's great, but because you're not in control of it, um, the pension, um, Obviously, there's a huge portion of that that you're not in control of.
And if you die, that money dies with you. So that's thing one. Thing two with the deferred compensation, it's great that you're having money put aside. But again, you're not in control of the investments. Therefore, you're not in control or you have even less control of the rate of return that takes place. So the way we teach here is.
is that if you've got that going on, there's nothing wrong with that, but you should not count that as 15% of your monthly salary going to your 401k. And here's why. And those are the two reasons I just laid out because you don't have control of it.
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Chapter 5: What financial decisions should I consider when building a new house?
Like I said, the house I live in now is 20 years old, so my wife wants me to put some money into this house, and I want to sell this house and just use that money to build a house.
okay well let's get some real numbers here so what's it going to cost you so eventually you guys are going to move out of this house and you're going to build something on this land or whatever it is that you own right so what what do you think it's going to cost to do to do that um looking about 400 400 okay and how much cash do you have saved
I got about $150 in the bank, I guess I can say this.
And is that aside from three to six months of emergency fund? Or is that including...
Yeah, well, because I have, no, that's the side, because I have like $20,000 I saved for emergency fund.
So we've got $20,000 aside for emergency fund, and then you've got this $150,000, correct? Two separate pots.
Yes.
Okay. I'm sorry, I'm asking you a bunch of questions, but I want to get the lay of the land. How much income do you and your wife bring home per month combined?
Okay. It's about $120,000. It ranges, goes a little higher sometimes, but $120,000 is about that.
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Chapter 6: How can I effectively manage my emergency fund during a home transition?
Um, then my next question is, if I if I were you, you know, I look at this situation, and I'm thinking, you've done a lot of things, right, you've got paid off real estate, but my personal residence, I don't want to have a bunch of paid off real estate over here that a bunch of other people are living in. but my own personal residence has a mortgage on it. Like I want to make sure the house.
You know what I'm saying? Even now don't have a mortgage. Right.
But when you go, when you go to move into this new house that you build, you want to lay your head down on the pillow and know there's no mortgage there. So I would consider, I don't know what these other three properties are worth, but what would it take, um, to find, to pull together another, you know, $300,000 to make this happen debt free.
Well, that's the thing. I wanted to do that, but then I'll keep building it up and then do it as we go. But my house I'm in now needs work, so I need to put another $20,000, $30,000 into this house. In order to even sell it? No, I would sell for $500,000 right now, which it is, but I want to fix it up a little bit.
Chapter 7: What strategies can help me increase my income to pay off debt?
If you know that you're going to sell it, I wouldn't put the money into selling it if you know that you're going to still pull $500,000 from it.
But then my wife, I told her, let's move to the other property and live in our motorhome and then sell this house and have the money to build that thing. But my wife don't want to live in the motorhome up on the other property until we... How long would it be? Live in this house, live in this house. Well, another story.
I got two girls that are still in high school, so I got to wait for them to get out of high school. So I got about three years.
So when is the time? What's the realistic timeline on this? If they're out of high school in three years...
um let's put some real numbers down because i'm thinking okay number one the house is not on fire so this is not even a thing it sounds like until three years from now so the things that you were talking about the things your wife doesn't want to live in a motor home and that's understandable so we're definitely not going to have her live in a moat i'm sorry
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Chapter 8: How can I balance work and family responsibilities while managing debt?
I live in a motor home with two teenage girls.
Right.
Exactly. Nobody does.
No one wants to do that. So we're not pulling the trigger on that at all right now. So realistically, your timeline is in. In three years, unless you said, OK, we're going to sell this house, we're going to sell the motor home and we're going to, I don't know, do something short term. But I really.
What I think the strategy is, no matter how you get to it, is when it's time for you to build on this other piece of land that you have, you're going to do it in cash. That's thing one. And if you put that on the paper first and circle it with exclamation points, then everything else is a derivative of that. It's like, okay, we're doing this in cash.
So what does that have to mean in order for that to take place? Well, we're going to have to sell one of these three properties. So you said that one of them you live in, one of them is... Tell me about the three properties.
So is it possible that you rent, is it possible that instead of you guys living in the motor home when this time comes, that you coincide it to where with one of your renters, they're out and you're into that property. until your home is finished. And then when your new home is finished, you move into the home and then you bring new renters back into that other house.
And so now at the end of the day, you're left with one rental property with renters. You're in your home. That's completely debt free. And I don't know what the motor home situation is, but I'm selling it because it's going down in value.
Well, I mean, I don't want to sell it. I like, I mean, I use it for, I like going out in it. I don't want to sell my motor home.
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