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Chapter 1: What should I do if I have a lot of debt and no retirement savings?
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Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on. Sure.
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Chapter 2: How can I manage being upside down on my car loan?
So I'm a self-employed contractor. I'm 46. My wife's 40. We don't have anything saved for retirement. We have an auto loan, a mortgage, a little bit of credit card debt, and we're just wondering what the best plan moving forward is from here. We have about $110,000 in savings.
Okay. So how much debt do you have, not counting your house?
I have a truck loan. There's about $40,000 left on it.
Okay, and that's your only debt other than your house?
Yeah, a couple thousand in credit card, but we usually pay that off every month.
And you have $110,000 in savings in cash?
Correct.
Not counting retirement?
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Chapter 3: What is the ideal down payment for buying a house?
I have no retirement. There's no 401s, nothing.
How old are you?
I'm 46, and my wife is 40, and she stays home. She's not employed.
All right. And what's your household income, sir?
Um... It varies, but I would say it's probably around 90 to 100.
Good. Okay. All right, Johnny, I get the sense from the words you're using and the way you ask this question that you're fairly new to this whole Ramsey discussion about money.
I am, yeah.
Okay. All right.
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Chapter 4: What should I consider when deciding on an old pension plan?
Um, so our whole thing is when I was in my twenties, I went completely broke because I was stupid and I went into debt up to my eyeballs buying real estate. And that taught me a lesson that was stuck with me the rest of my life. I'm now 62. So I have lived 35 years with zero debt.
Okay?
That's awesome. And that has given me the control of my most powerful wealth-building tool, which is your income. And it's easy to visualize this. If you had no payments and you were in control of your money with a written game plan where you're telling every dollar what to do, you could enjoy life and also invest aggressively and not be broke because you make good money. That make sense? Okay.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because your car payment is what, $800?
It's about $750.
Almost like I've done this before.
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Chapter 5: Should I sell my condo before buying a new house?
Yeah, right.
And so $750. And see, if you invest $750 a month from your age until retirement, you'll be a millionaire.
That's awesome. That's what I want.
You've got 20 years, so you'd be a millionaire. But instead, you've got car payments. And no plan, no plan. And you just kind of wander along and go, I got some money saved, but what you did a good job, 110,000 in the bank. You're way ahead of most people, right? I mean, that's pretty impressive, but, but you kind of almost, you kind of almost fell into that.
Cause it's not like you got some detailed plan going. I'm not picking on you. I just know you. Cause I used to be you.
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Chapter 6: How can I effectively use my savings to pay off debt?
Is that okay?
Yeah, that's totally fine. Understandable.
Okay. And so what we have taught and what Sharon and I did after we went broke is we got on a detailed in-depth plan and we became in charge of the money, making every dollar behave. Sometimes it behaved for generosity. Sometimes it behaved for investing. Sometimes it behaved so we could have fun with it. All right? Okay.
And so then what we discovered is, again, your most powerful wealth-building tool is your income. So if I woke up in your shoes, what would I do? I would take some of the $110,000 I pay off your car today.
Okay. That's what my wife told me.
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Chapter 7: What are the benefits of a detailed budget for financial success?
And then I would get your credit cards out, and I'd cut them all up.
Okay.
And I'd pay them off.
Even though we use one mainly, and then we usually pay it off at the end of the month. You know what?
If you use a debit card on your checking account, it does everything your credit card will do, and the money comes straight out of your account, so you don't have to pay it off at the end of the month. It already came out.
What about the cashback advantage that we get, like the points that we earn from it?
So far, it's not caused you to be rich. Definitely not.
And by the way, brother, they're not your friends, so they're not hooking you up with free money and flights every time you use their card. They're making their money. You spend more money than you would otherwise because you can just pay it off later. And it's psychological. It's research and it's data and it's data and it's data.
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Chapter 8: How can I prepare for my family's financial future?
We don't tell you to get rid of them because it's fun for us. We just look at the data, man.
Yeah. So when we talk to millionaires and we study researched millionaires, we find that they make every dollar behave. They're in agreement with their spouse. They quit borrowing money and they invest and they're generous.
And they pay off their house.
And then they pay off their houses the next thing. So I'm going to pay off. I'm going to take $110,000 minus $40,000, which leaves me $70,000. You make $90,000. So I'm going to set aside out of that $70,000, $30,000 in a separate high-yield savings account. We're going to call that your emergency fund. And you never touch it, even if you have an emergency.
It's just sitting there for really bad days. Okay?
Okay. Okay.
And then that leaves us about $40,000, doesn't it?
It does, yeah.
Okay. And do you have children?
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