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Chapter 1: Can we afford for my wife to quit her job to be a stay-at-home mom?
live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, broadcasting from the Pod's moving and storage studio. It's the Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create actual amazing relationships. I'm your host for today, Jade Warshaw, and I'm joined by the man, the marvel, George Campbell.
I was like, where are we going with this?
George, I could go on and on. The magnificent!
This is why you want to hang out with Jade. She makes you feel great.
Well, you are great, George. You're a great guy. A great coworker. And we're taking your calls all day long, at least for the next three hours, that is. And call in with whatever it is you want to talk about. We're talking about life. We're talking about money, trying to stick to the budget, trying to pay off debt, trying to buy some real estate, whatever it might be.
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Chapter 2: Why isn't going further into debt a solution for getting out of debt?
Put the kids through college, whatever it is. Give us a call. The number is 888- 825-5225. And let's go on right directly to these phone lines because we've got Landon in Memphis, Tennessee. What's going on, Landon? Hey, how's it going? Doing good. How are you?
Doing well. I just wanted to get y'all's opinion on something that might be absolutely ludicrous. I prefer to get y'all's opinions anyways. So I just made a career change about seven months ago. I became a realtor after leaving a job that I was at for about since I was 12, actually.
Chapter 3: How can we get back on track with the Baby Steps after financial struggles?
And my wife works a salary job. And so obviously with meeting a realtor, my income can go drastically up or down. So for my first couple of months, didn't make a whole lot. And then this month I made 32 grand. Next month I'll make about 25. And then I'm working a $9 million deal.
And so- Whoa, hold up. Did you say 9 million?
Yes, that's right.
Can I, what is it? Can I ask?
It's a commercial property. Wow. Yeah, that is Luda. Keep going.
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Chapter 4: How should we prioritize paying off our mortgage versus consumer debt?
So obviously one month, you know, I can make really good money, and the next month I might, you know, make not much. And so my question is, is it a good idea for my wife to quit her salary job to be a stay-at-home mom, which she desperately wants to do, and just, you know, stick with my commission-only job? Yeah.
You may have said this before, but I got sidetracked by the nine million. How long have you been doing real estate?
Seven months.
Seven months. And how much money is your wife making right now?
Like 45 or 50 grand.
here's what I would, here's, I'm always going to tell you what Jade Warshaw might do if I were in your exact situation, in your exact shoes. I think that you're probably on track to be able to do that, but you're so early in the game on this. I would want to just get a whole picture of what a whole year is like and say, okay, like, is this normal? Did I have just a couple of quick windfalls?
What's it like? You know,
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of taking out a 401(k) loan?
Does that make sense? Because I feel like real estate is one of those things. So many people got into real estate, George, in 2020. And it was like, ha, I can do this. Like, this is easy, you know? And then the market started getting different. And it was like, oh, this is what it's really like.
Yeah, it went from anyone and their mom could sell houses and make good money to, oh my gosh, even the pros are struggling.
Right. And it sounds like you're not struggling. I'm curious. You told us what you made this month, the previous month, and what you kind of had down the pipe. But what were your first six months like?
So month one, I did about $1.5 million in deals. So what does that amount to?
Chapter 6: How can we effectively budget for unexpected home maintenance costs?
What's your net profit?
I made like $35,000.
In one month?
So what's been your worst month? I mean, that's not necessarily counting broker fees and stuff. Sure.
Okay, okay, okay.
I'm with you now.
So what would be your net income after all fees? Give me your worst month so far.
You there?
Well, we had a good run with Landon.
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Chapter 7: What strategies can help us stick to our budget during financial challenges?
But what we're getting at and what I know what I'm getting at is I want to see what the track record has been with this. Because if it's like, hey, I made $30,000 or, you know, now I made $32,000, but I was making $7,000. I was making $5,000. I was making $4,000. I made 10, you know, if it's been very sporadic and then all of a sudden there's a jump off, that's great. I'm happy for him.
I would want to know more about it. Did you meet somebody? What was the connection? Like what has happened that has made this explode in a good way? And is that something that's sustainable? You know, cause, cause having his wife decide that she's going to stay home. That's a big, you know, that's a big deal. And to go from a, you know, a, Oh, he's back.
Chapter 8: How can we balance enjoying life while paying off debt?
Great, great, great. Let's see if Landon's still with us. All right, Landon. Sorry. What happened? You hit some turbulence?
I have no... They just said call failed. I don't know what happened.
That's all right. So we're just speculating over here about your situation. We're trying to define the track record.
This comes down to a mathematical equation. If your expenses are $4,000 and your worst month was $6,000, she can stay home tomorrow. And if you can learn how to manage this irregular income, it's not going to be a problem.
Mm-hmm. Well, our expenses, I mean, we're in baby step seven. Our house is paid for and we don't have any debt.
Okay, so security.
And we have about 70 grand in our emergency fund.
Okay.
And so the plan was to just take a salary out of whatever commission. So if I make $35,000 in a month, just take like a $5,000 salary out of that and then just continue to put the rest to whatever we need to as far as an emergency fund, retirement, whatever.
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