Nasty Woman Deserves Jail Time | Financial Audit

27 Sep 2024 · 1 h 37 min

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Nasty Woman Deserves Jail Time | Financial Audit

Episode Description

In this episode of Financial Audit, host Caleb Hammer welcomes Erica, a 23-year-old HR administrator from Round Rock, Texas, to discuss her financial situation, including her income, debts, spending habits, and overall financial literacy.

Key Segments and Discussions

Introduction

  • Erica introduces herself and shares her profession and income level ($65,000 annually).
  • Discussion of the cost of living in Round Rock compared to Austin.

Debt and Financial Struggles

  • Erica admits to having significant debt despite being close to the median household income.
  • Conversation reveals that she has missed payments and is struggling to keep up with her expenses.
  • Key Issues Identified:
  • Accumulation of debt due to poor spending habits and a lack of budgeting.
  • Emotional spending (retail therapy, eating out) contributes to her financial strain.

Spending Habits

  • Breakdown of Erica's monthly income and expenses:
  • Monthly income: approximately $4,145.
  • Total spending reported at around $4,506 – exceeding income and leading to debt.
  • Notable spending on fast food ($633 monthly) and other unnecessary expenses.
  • Erica expresses feelings of panic when bills are paid, leading to more impulsive spending.

Credit Card Debt

  • Discussion of credit card debt, including a substantial balance of $17,000 on one card with a high-interest rate (18%).
  • Examination of the consequences of minimum payments and accruing interest.
  • Analysis of the possibility of negotiating debt payments through the Relief app.

Car Lease and Payments

  • Erica discusses her current car lease ($655 per month) and regrets about trading in her previous car.
  • Conversations around potentially giving back the car or trading it for a less expensive option.

Future Planning and Solutions

  • Discussion on the importance of budgeting and building an emergency fund.
  • Caleb emphasizes the need for Erica to cut back on discretionary spending to manage debt.
  • Suggestions for prioritizing payments on collections and debts to improve credit score.

Overall Assessment

  • Erica rates her financial situation, admitting to a lack of budgeting and financial awareness.
  • Caleb challenges her self-assessment, highlighting the realities of her financial mismanagement.
  • Suggestions included utilizing resources for budgeting, investing, and debt management.

Key Takeaways

  • Budgeting: Erica does not currently maintain a budget, which is crucial for managing income and expenses.
  • Financial Literacy: There is a clear lack of understanding regarding credit card debt and how interest works, leading to financial mismanagement.
  • Spending Awareness: Erica's emotional spending habits significantly impact her financial health; a critical eye on spending can lead to better financial outcomes.
  • Debt Management: Using resources like the Relief app could provide her with options to negotiate unpaid debts.
  • Emergency Fund: Establishing at least a small emergency fund can provide a buffer against unexpected expenses.

Resources

  • Mention of various financial resources, including budgeting programs and investment classes available through the podcast's website.
  • Links to tools and programs for budgeting, investing, and improving credit scores were provided in the episode description.

Conclusion The episode underscores the importance of financial literacy, budgeting, and understanding debt management. Caleb's tough-love approach aims to guide Erica towards better financial practices while shedding light on common pitfalls many young adults face. The conversation serves as a reminder of the need for proactive financial planning and education.

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0:00To watch episodes of Financial Audit a week earlier, check us out on YouTube.

0:30Hi, I'm Erica. I'm 23. I'm based out of Round Rock, Texas, and this is Financial Audit. Thanks for coming on in. What do you do in Round Rock for a living? I'm actually an HR administrator. Very cool. We might need one of those soon. That's awesome. What do you make in this position? I'm at 65K a year. Great. How do you feel living on Round Rock in this? It's a little cheaper than the main area of austin but still very much suburbia of austin so not necessarily uber cheap yeah um i actually like it um it's it's manageable so with that being said um just making sure that i'm keeping up with those things are you i am i am but are you um i'm doing the best i can so yes i am The best you can at$65 ,000.

1:23Yeah, well, I kind of have a lot of debt. Yes, you do. So, I mean, that's immediately like, you know, I like some pleasantries at first before we dig into things. But when I hear you say it's manageable and I know the statements we're going to look into have some missed payments. I'm like, so what's being managed if we're not paying? I mean, you make the median household income in Austin is like$75 ,000 a year. So you're already making only$10 ,000 under the median household income, which is usually dual income. So you're doing okay. Yeah, I definitely am doing okay, but I wasn't making that always since I've been here.

1:57Okay, so how long have you been making this? Going on four months now. Four months, and then what were you making before this? Before that, I was making$21 an hour. $21 an hour, okay. How many hours a week? What were you making in a month, though? um and overall in a month when i and you went into debt during that time when you're making 21 bucks an hour no um it's kind of slowly built itself up since over how long 23 it's not old about 18 i want to say 18 what was the first debt you took out the first that i took out was i have a synchrony credit card and it's classic my first was synchrony as well wait i think it was a store synchrony yeah guitar center yeah um and that was more so to build my credit so that way i could get a car and and i was able to get that car yes however recently um i ended up giving it trading it in which i deeply regret why because now i'm in a lease and my you're in a lease yes and i was almost pretty much almost done paying it off um but you traded in because it broke down and at the time i wasn't making the money what are you able to trade it in for with it being broken down well evidently it couldn't be too broke down because they actually gave me a little bit or more than what it was what i had paid what was the car it was a 2018 toyota camry what did you get for it um 13 500 interesting okay so i had total income from payroll 4 145 does that sound about right that sounds right again it's not an insignificant amount of money it's not not at all then why why are you what you're in right now um i have to hear that i have a problem giving up all my money um i kind of make a like my full check i i i set out a plan usually like do you have a problem getting out your money again 4 145 came in what went out car note Whoa, what number went out?

4:06What number went out? Spending total, including debt increasing. Probably about the full$4 ,000. Give me a number. $4 ,120, I'd say. Okay, so$25 less than came in? Yes. Total spending was$4 ,506. So a few hundred dollars more. So trouble getting rid of your money. you get rid of all your money plus more so i don't know what you're talking about out of the gate uh more so just like when i'm paying bills and i see the number going down i kind of panic a little bit because i'm like well that leaves no money for me to to be me and go out and do the things that i want to do not necessarily go out but i do eat out a lot just because the job that i'm working right now is very demanding mentally so by the time i get home that's not an excuse to you know it's not it's not but by the time i get home i don't very demanding mentally i feel like a lot of us could say that for our jobs yeah absolutely and then all of us can just so we all have the excuse to just go spend money we don't have when we're not paying our bills no but they definitely don't have to be on call um i'm pretty much on call a lot i have a company phone that i have to keep with me at all times to make sure that i'm answering well you'd hate being a business owner yeah yeah yeah but uh i eventually want to own my own business to where do you i do really You just said it's too stressful to have to have a phone on you at all times.

5:33And trust me, being a business owner is 24 hours a day. It is. My thing is, is more so if I'm going to work this hard, I'd rather work hard for myself. So it's not necessarily something I can't do. Now that is fair. Yeah. How do you pay your rent? With flex. What do you mean? How do you pay your rent? Elaborate. Did we get it through flex? No. We didn't see that either. So actually you're spending, because we didn't find it on the statements, is likely an additional$1 ,400 more than what I said. Meaning you're probably spending$1 ,600,$1 ,700 more than comes in. So trouble holding on to your income?

6:12I don't know what the f*** you're talking about. And what do you mean trouble holding on to your income anyway? Because if you go to work, you go to work. Okay, you do your work and then you're on call. You give out your income every day picking up food on the way home. So what the f*** are you talking about, trouble holding? you mean just paying your bills you have trouble paying your bills but when it comes to things you want when it comes to you're all about it exactly um okay then don't throw that at the just don't throw that at me at the beginning yeah like because that's not true you don't have a problem with getting rid of your money you don't you get rid of it every second of your life like i said i just panic when i see that my when i'm paying my bills and i have a set plan and i go ahead and pay them and i'm starting to see that i'm getting down now to my last few hundred dollars i do tend to panic a little bit you don't panic when you spend 633 dollars that could have gone to your payments on fast food on a monthly basis uh no because i don't see it all right then and there this is over a month ah meaning you don't budget i don't so you don't know that you've been spending okay obviously go through our budgeting program okay go through it go through the quizzes go through the whole educational platform stick to the meal plan make sure going through that you get that for free for being a guest you can get it at a bundled lower price right now with the investing program as well 15 off check it out link in the description below but then also miscellaneous bs was an additional 615 dollars yeah 615 dollars so now we have 1200 minimum 1200 minimum that could have gone towards paying some of the bills that you have late fees on that we're about to get into but you're like here's these things i don't need but feel good because I had a long little day and I'm stressed at my poor widow adult job.

7:51So let me just go below$1 ,200 instead of actually... Okay, you feel stressed. Yes. You feel stressed, right? Yes. You feel stressed? This is true. You know what would bring stress off? What? Having less debt, less minimum monthly payments. How do you do that? You actually sacrifice for a bit. Then you start paying off that debt. The debt does pay off. Then you do not have those minimum monthly payments. You don't have the stress of having to think about that debt, of having to make those bills. But instead, you have extra stress because you're behind down payments because McDonald's is more important.

8:27I don't know where you went to yet. We're about to find out. But I'm assuming some golden arches is going to at least peak its way through. Yes. Tends to. Now, I will admit that that doesn't necessarily all go towards food. It more so goes towards, of course, food as well. but just trying to de-stress a little retail therapy. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That was in the miscellaneous bullshit. The going out to eat of 600 or whatever dollars was literally only going out to eat. So no. Maybe. Don't f*** me. Not maybe. That's your math. Well, there's definitely some retail therapy there as well.

9:02Then 2 ,000 hours of large purchases. Now we'll see what all that is here in a bit. Give yourself a score. Zero to ten. I want to see where you self-assess yourself. Zero being the worst, ten being the best. What do you think you are on the financial scale? I would definitely give myself maybe about a six. Have you seen this show? Yeah.

9:21Are you trying to like get punched in the face? What are we trying to do? I'm just more so that you asked me to rate myself and that's where I feel that I am. Okay. Explain then, please. Like I said, so I try my best to start with a budget just depending on what I do believe. Five minutes ago, I heard you say you do not budget. No. Go ahead, continue. Don't necessarily budget, but like I said, depending on what I'm trying to do, like as of recently, I'm trying to pay off one of my credit cards. I have been making more payments rather than just the minimum payment. I have. And I don't use my credit cards.

9:58I have both of them frozen, so that way nothing's actually coming off of them, but I'm trying to go ahead and pay those down. Okay. Have you looked at your checking account spending? Yes, I have. Have you looked at your debt situation in general across the board, including collections? I've peeped at it. What's your retirement account at? I don't have one. What's your savings account at? I have about$500, maybe, of that. And you have missed debt payments? Correct. And you believe you are above a solid middle-of-the-road five? With all those things? yes with my oh you are trying to get punched okay if you want your hammer financial score it's free link in the description below also even though i'm the tough love caleb springer it's true this is a fun little thing and we got all your agreements and everything for that make sure you give the guests some love because you were brave enough for coming on here so good for you good for you for having some balls and just coming on here and uh trying to get your situation and shape and if you want to come on the show come on calebhammer.com slash apply happy to have you on uh let's start with uh oh my oh wow wow this is a thick daddy to get started you went to navy federal and you're like excuse me madame at the front desk at navy federal how can i completely destroy my life before getting halfway through our 20s was that the question you asked because it's the question they answered you somehow owe 17 000 on one card 17 000 17 000 13 and 70 cents the limit is 17 100 so if you if you're not spending on here that's a brand new development brand new development as in like right before you decided to come on the show minimum monthly payment Man, it's$415.

11:52Oh, I see you paying a little extra. So you paid a little extra dollars, a couple dollars. Okay. Like, that's fine. But if we're missing other payments anyway, it's just like you're negating it regardless. $227 of interest accruing. It's going to take the rate you're going. You're probably taking it down from 30 years to about 22 years. The rate you're going is going to take 22 years to pay this off. You're going to be in your 40s. You are going to be 45 years old by the time this is paid off with your little extra payments. on honestly and i'm being a little more uh liberal with that conservative you know maybe closer to like 50 well actually i haven't been using that car for at least six months that's a lie that's impossible if you're making a little extra on it even with this interest of coming you should be making progress of about 200 bucks every time that's not possible because you're only under by $77.

12:47So, unless was this dramatically above the credit limit? No. Then your math is not math. Well, the thing is, like I said, I haven't been using it. I've been paying the minimum, but I did miss a couple of months because I fell on hard times. What's hard times? Hard times. I did not have a job. How long? For three months. Did you spend and stop? Yes. Across the board? Across the board. The checking account? the check-in account where you spent 1200 minimum on bull literally went to zero correct when i hold on what month one month this was actually the past last october so this is oh that was a long time ago yeah so it kind of caught up with me and you pull up your checking account right now show me last october okay i want proof on this yeah uh because i i do not want someone to come here and just because i don't have the statements in front of me i don't want them to be able to bull so i want proof in that i will sympathize with hard times the moment on there that i see some bulls**t running you will lose it and you're wanting to see the statement correct oh yeah just checking account go back to october and then in general i mean cool you got a job again why did you go back into the habits instead of uh dealing with you put yourself in a hole because you went through hard times first of all why aren't you on unemployment second of all why didn't you have an emergency fund third of all why didn't you then once you got a job make up for the hole you put yourself in by getting out of it um because like i said when i first got here to austin i wasn't making the salary that i'm making now i actually started But you were still making money.

14:34Well, it wasn't enough to actually cover my bills. And how was your spending while you had those? I'm not going to lie. It wasn't the best. And here we go. So is it that you didn't have the money? What is this water vending? So a vending machine? You go to the vending machine every second of your life? So more so, I wasn't necessarily going to there every day of my life. but uh when i did finally get a job i was trying to avoid from eating out but cash well this is when you're laid off you're cash apping out let's see potentially gas potentially go inside getting some bs same with the dollar store it's a little hard to tell cash app out went to popeye's again went to the dollar store you may have been trying to cut back at that point you're after paying vending machine vending machine vending machine vending machine chili's probably went inside the gas station and got some bullsh**.

15:31That was six bucks. Vending machine. Oh, f**k. Oh, it continues. An Apple subscription, an Apple subscription, an Apple subscription. Went in, definitely got some bullsh**. Did not get$3.13 of gas. No. Guaranteed. Same with Walmart. You went in and got whatever that is again. Going inside, getting some BS. More so at the gas station. Afterpay. Zelling out money. Cash app and out money. Cash app and out money. TikTok shop. $40. unemployed saying we Hi, I'm here to pick up my son Milo There's no Milo here Who picked up my son from school? Streaming only on Peacock I'm gonna need the name of everyone that could have a connection You don't understand, it was just the five of us So this was all planned What are you gonna do?

16:18I will do whatever it takes to get my son back I honestly didn't see this coming These nice people killing each other All her fault A new series streaming now, only on Peacock. Cut back to zero. You lied. You're f***ing me. Uh-uh, we're not bulls***ing this table. This table's not for bulls***. I do have an explanation for that. I don't need it here just for one. All this stacking up with another Apple bill. Another, or Afterpay. Afterpay. Cash app and out. Wingstop. Little Caesars. Beauty Supply. Zellin' out money. Cash app and out money. Went in, got some bulls***. What are you going in and getting some bulls***?

16:55Apple bill. I'll ask that in a second. Went and got some afterpay, wingstop, afterpay, afterpaying every second of our life. Zelling out, cashapping out. In terms of necessities, necessities are maybe 5 % to 10%. 5 % to 10 % of that. So no, you lied. You did not cut back to zero. So I can't have sympathy. If you got laid off, you didn't qualify for unemployment because you weren't paying into the system long enough, and you didn't have any support in that, and times were tough, times were tough, times were tough, You have my full sympathy. You have my full heart. You have all the hugs in the world.

17:27That was 75%, 60 % to 75 % minimum bullshit in terms of individual purchases. Stopping, swiping, stopping, swiping, stopping, swiping. So no. Why'd you lie? I didn't necessarily lie. In my mind then, it made more sense. Then? What about now? Well, of course now it doesn't make sense when you put it like that. But you are able to look back. Why'd you tell me that you cut back to zero? I did because I used to eat out a lot more and I was thinking going from 100 % to 50 % is not zero. That's a reduction in half. Yeah. Listen, guys, if you haven't been making payments on your credit cards, I've just partnered with a new app called Relief.

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18:46Instead of wasting time negotiating on your own, focus on the sh** that matters the most, like staying current on the rest of your bills. And to help you get started, I got the boys over there at Relief to give you all 15 % off your first order when you enter my promo code, Caleb, during the month of September. So don't f**k this up. Do it now. Well, like I said, more so with the corner stores, like going there, it would be like getting water, snacks, and trying to make sure that I'm home. Have you heard of a faucet? We live in the United States of America. Yeah, and they don't have the best water.

19:18Okay, Round Rock is fine. But at that time, I wasn't in Round Rock. Where were you? I was in Houston. Okay, I'm sure Houston's fine. Okay, a water filter, a Brita. Or we go to the grocery store and we get a big pack of water bottles, Ozurka or whatever it is, and it's like they come out to like five cents a bottle. Like what are you doing? You're not stopping at a gas station and getting a$3 life water or whatever. oh no i get two it's like more so they'll be on sale for like two for three dollars um or that's still horrible compared to going to the grocery store and getting bulk so even still it's stupid and you said other things too you didn't say just water yeah so um it'll be like snacks like i said um when i was going out i was just trying to make sure that i wasn't eating out and as you see i did eat out a little bit but it as you see no they're still eating out probably a couple times a week there.

20:15Now it's a couple times a day. But we'll get there. Which is also not good for health. To be clear. We both got the thickness. We both should probably not have the thickness. Better for our heart to not thick. Working on it slowly but surely. Well not in your diet. Not yet. You can't out exercise a bad diet. That's what they say. Coming from a man with tits. It's funny. It is what it is. it is so no you didn't just fall on hard times you fell on hard times but you continued your spending even if at 25 of insanity yeah so you put yourself in the hole and then when you ended up getting a job even in the three months that you've had a good income you haven't worked to at least fill up the hole that you dug yourself into back then so it's like that's hard for me to have sympathy understood understood um your behavior is out of control you're not a credit You need a charge card like the Fizz card or any other charge card where you put the money on.

21:15You can only spend the money that you have. Yeah. I didn't even realize until as of recently that especially like my secret credit card, I've been paying that since I was 18. So now we're going on five years. Oh, yeah. And I've been trying to up the limit because, I mean. Why? You should have. Not up the limit, but up the amount that I'm paying on it. Oh, those are two very different things. Yeah. Sorry. I misspoke. I misspoke. I felt flames coming out of my eyes when you said that. Just trying to pay more on it because at the time when I first got it, I didn't understand credit cards. I didn't understand how they worked, how credit worked.

21:52Sure. So I was solely paying the minimum, which was like$89. And now I'm paying more so like$200 or$400, whatever I pretty much can. You're lucky that the interest rate on this card is only 18 % only. But for a credit card, for a lot of people on the show, they're close to$30. but you still, we're barely over halfway through the year, you are still, you lost$2 ,000 this year in interest on this card, one card out of many of the debts we're going to talk about. $2 ,000 in interest. It's horrendous. Yeah. I can't lie about that one. You're just missing payments through the hard times, but hard times was a year ago.

22:30Yeah, but I haven't missed any recent payments. I know, but like you said, that's why you were only$75 under the limit? No. I know you've been making such good progress according to you. I've had that card as well before October. I actually got it maybe two years ago. So this is a couple of times that I actually lost my job. And I didn't know that, you know, I thought I was doing good by paying the monthly minimum payment. However, after realizing and getting a little bit more knowledge as far as how credit cards work. Yeah. Yeah. It just the interest just started building on itself. And before I knew it, it went from$4 ,000 and then$10 ,000.

23:13And then it was completely maxed out. For example, a lot of people contribute 4 % to their 401k because they get like a 4 % match. You had 4 % of your yearly income go to interest on that card this year. So far, the year's not even done. What, is it going to be like 6 % by the end of the year? Possibly, yes. 6 % of your income and interest on one card. And we have a stack of cards. Okay. See? Here it is. unpaid late charges on this next thing right now what's the point of making extra on other things if you have late charges on other accounts it doesn't make sense you're just offsetting it you're just moving it from one to the other you're not actually making any progress this toyota is this the lease yes a 655 a month lease what is this car it's a 2024 toyota crown oh when did you get toyota crown i've never even heard of that when did you get it uh february this past february oh what's the lease term length 36 months okay um i'm actually trying to see about getting out of it into something what's out of it what do you mean out of the lease um into out of it in which way like giving it back and trading it in for something else that's a little bit cheaper for another lease no i'd rather move to a finance car so that way once i'm finished paying it off it's mine so one you'd probably have to do it through them so you're going to be stuck within their ecosystem for them to get you out of this lease or else it would be more of like a payoff trade-in thing through another so you're really locking yourself in a box with this and then what's remaining on this lease to even pay um i still have you're lucky that used car prices is going down so by the time this lease is done you're actually probably gonna in terms of its buyout might actually be no that's actually worse because your buyout's going to be higher than what it's actually probably valued at at that point correct when that sucks yeah i've already kind of went back and talked with them and everything it was uh i can admit that was a very stupid decision um at the time i just didn't have the money to actually fix my car um and i don't necessarily have any did you even know what was wrong with it no i took i actually took it there to get it fixed but in previous times when i've went there just to get something simple fixed it's cost me 200 or more and at the time so to be clear instead of paying 200 or more we're now paying 655 a month well at the time payment that you're missing because you have unpaid late charges well at the time my um account was in a negative i didn't have the money so how could you justify a 655 a month payment that doesn't make any sense it was more so you couldn't do a 200 repair yeah i couldn't but i don't know that's one of the most crazy things actually i've actually ever heard it could have been more i never even got a chance to even well no i mean you could have got i mean i doubt they would have let you get it but you could have got like a bugatti it can always be more yeah doesn't mean that this is good i don't know it doesn't um but more so i was in a mode of thinking that i just need my car because i had to get back and forth and i yeah but this though why don't we if we had a lease let's say you wanted a lease for whatever reason still could at least a used car i didn't know that that was an option to be honest with you what do you mean that i i didn't have much experience i don't even my family they're more so coming from you know a friend or something you could have brought no not anybody that knew what you know well knowing that leases exist is kind of like i know nothing about cars but come on I know that yeah um well no not the friends that I have they they don't even know anything about it um I've tried to I was there you should have had a conversation with my good friend Chet GPT you know I didn't think she would have told you she probably would have I didn't think about that at the time hey Mrs.

27:15GPT I can't afford a$200 repair any chance I can afford a $650 car payment? Probably would have said no. Probably. Yeah. I don't think Sam Alton is in favor of what you've done here. Okay. Well, that's insane. You still have 32 months left and you've already missed payments. Only six months in and you've missed payments. My gosh. Well, I didn't necessarily miss the payments, so I was under the impression because when I've had my lease before, I mean, sorry, my Toyota Camry, when I was that was financed. So in the past I was able to get a deferment and you know they put it on the end of the back end but we haven't had very much of this on the show and all of a sudden now like everyone's doing that it's like I swear this show comes in stages people is just all everyone who's ever cheated on anyone filmed within like a few days of each other somehow and all of a sudden these people that put their car payments on the back of their car they're all filming in a few days of each other what is happening well it's so weird I thought it worked the same i like i said this is my first lease so i thought it worked the same and it turns out it didn't and they didn't contact me until literally it was already too late and it was already recorded reporting to my credit that i needed to pay in order to have a deferment you know what the buyout is going to be in 32 months i don't as of right now what's your mile limit on it and are you hitting it are you meeting it um no i'm not meeting it i'm not i'm not there yet at least to do that well not yet but it's only been six months yeah but i did go back and ask them um and they said that they would only give me 32 000 for it but it's worth more than that or it's not what do you mean they would only give you 32 000 um like if i were to give it back which i've tried to why would they give you anything decent to get out of a lease they want you to be in this lease Right.

29:08It's a money-making machine for them. You have a car subscription. Basically. Did not know that at the time, of course. Still kind of getting more information on that. I'm still not even completely sure what's from here, what to do from here. We'll figure that out at the end. Okay. I know you get your entire situation under the microscope first. Okay. Secretly, your friend that you've been paying on for five years. Correct. is still at a current balance of$1 ,919. How'd you build this all the way up? Well, again, that interest, the interest on that particular credit card is at 29. So at first I started off with not touching it.

29:55And then COVID happened. I was out of a job. What was your job? I was working at FedEx. Well, I started working at FedEx when I first started. but when COVID first started, I didn't have a job at all. I was actually coming home from college, which I didn't leave. Oh, so you didn't get laid off. You just didn't have a job going into COVID. Correct. I was going to say, because delivery, that was kind of one of the main things sticking around at the beginning. Right. So I did end up getting a job and everything, but I needed that card to hold me over, and I did use it to pay my - I'll get a credit card if you don't have a job, people.

30:31Fun fact. Well, I already had that card. Wait a minute. So you've been paying on this for five years, But again, you've only made$500 of progress if you max it out. No, because the interest is so high, it kind of just defeats the whole purpose. It does, but after five years, you should have made a little more progress. Well, that's the card that I was paying the minimum on, and it was telling me that the minimum was$90. So I was like, okay. And I was paying the$90, but not actually understanding that it was still accruing a lot more interest. Not more than 90 a month. No, it was accruing interest a lot.

31:09Well, yeah, it was accruing interest, but not more than 90 a month. And then I paid my... Okay, let's say it was at its max of 2 ,500. Okay. Let's call it 30 % interest.

31:20Your interest would have been$62.50 a month. Right. So you were still making progress. Well, the problem is... And that was on a high end, too. It was probably closer to like$58 a month in interest. well i ended up using it to pay my car note a couple of times because i was in between still uh yeah and financing a car payment yeah financing a financing payment and that was before i knew not having an emergency fund is an emergency people this is as clear as this i'm glad you have a good job now but you're not utilizing it yet You're not making any progress. Check out this trailer of an exclusive financial audit episode that no one has ever seen.

32:03How have you survived to 23? I ask myself that question a lot. Do you answer the question to yourself? No.

32:15It's just like usually whenever I have to go out. I guess when I go out.

32:27Again,$384 came in from your job. How much do you think you spent? How much did I make? $384? Uh-huh. $384. You don't think you overspent? Oh, I probably, I guess I did, yeah. Seven, maybe, I don't know. I don't like numbers. I'm, like, also out of practice, because I used to, like, do numbers all the time, but... I've just been like staying at like either where I can. Oh, good. No way. Your couch hopping places. I like stay at for the jobs. You're relying on bookings for a place to live. Yeah. So that's why you're willing to do this. Cause it's at least paying for a roof over your head, but you're still getting nothing from it.

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34:28You sent a screenshot and out a statement, so I can't see the interest that's occurring. Well, it wouldn't let me pull the statements because that's one of the cards that I had frozen or turned off or whatever the case may be. So it wouldn't let me pull anything. is this your pass due on a rent a move out statement so you owe twelve hundred fourteen dollars to a past apartment correct what the so i ended up having to get out of that apartment um it was very condemned um it was condemned it was just ruined it was the city condemned it no It was just the apartment itself was very... The AC went out.

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35:10Every time I was trying to get them to come and fix it and everything, they just kind of refused to help me or gave me the runaround. And then summer happened and the roach situation was terrible. I'll say that. Doesn't sound good. So I just had to get out there. I had to get out of that apartment. Is this in Round Rock or Houston? This was actually in Wells Branch. Okay. South of Round Rock. Hold on. was it no um okay i toured that with a friend and they we uh

35:49we'll put this picture in the video we toured it was horrible it was an immediate no we were wondering why the prices were so cheap and now we know why and we were in their uh getting renovated leasing place and we were just kind of walking around when my friend was talking to the landlord there and or the leasing agent and we came across this piece of paper just on a pool table and it was all the units with roach issues that they had to solve and it was a list of units with roaches and yeah okay so you have okay well it's sewer so this is everything it's water sewer extra fees pet uh pest control sorry okay water damage did i see wait as soon as i'm on hard time right so they charged me for water damage but that was due to the ac being out and every time i tried to get them to come in and fix it nobody would come and like i said they would just kind of give me to run around over and over again so um yeah i had to get out of there and so you just left no i get i returned my keys back i asked you know what are my options they were i was told that either i could break the lease which was basically two months worth of rent plus an extra seventeen hundred dollars so it would have came out to about four or five thousand dollars um but after talking to the property manager i was able to find out that basically i can give my surrender my keys and they wouldn't necessarily charge me the next month's rent which is clearly on there So they didn't necessarily tell me the full truth.

37:27And I'm actually in a in a disputing that right now, actually. Disputing what? Some of the charges on there as far as. With who, though? With Jetty, which is like a they help you with your security deposit. It's a company that helps you with your security deposit here. I don't know Jetty here in Austin, here in Austin, because I originally wanted to go through Flex. They didn't offer Flex, so I just went ahead with Jetty and they helped me with my security deposit and they notified me saying that the apartments actually made a claim. However, the documentation that the apartments gave is actually$1 ,000 more than what the total is on there.

38:15Well, I see they got rid of a term termination fee and a rent fee, which brought it down by a thousand dollars.

38:28But so, no, I mean, honestly, no, I think if what you told me is the hundred percent truth, they actually technically did it. They didn't charge you for the rent. The rent was on here and then it was excused. Yeah. But you got an additional fee for a roulette team fee for not providing a 60 day notice, which they didn't say they wouldn't do in what you told me. So, but listen, they were probably being sneaky and dicky about it. But with what you told me, it sounds like they actually may have upheld it. Well, that's not the that documentation that you have is not what they gave Jetty. Why did they give Jetty?

39:07They gave Jetty the original one that has the relating fee on there. This has the relating fee on here. What is the total for that one? I'm sorry. Total is$1 ,214. But again, there is a rent on here, but they took the rent off as they told you they would. So again, they didn't say they wouldn't do a relating fee for you. They said they wouldn't make you have that extra month of rent, which they did take off of here. So based on what they told you, they actually did that. But then they went back on their word. No, no, no, no. Because the one that they gave the Jetty team is more than what that one is.

39:40What is it? 2 ,146? No, it's 3 ,177. Well, I have the ready things. Jetty. Jetty. I don't have that. Okay. So what can I say? I don't know. That's why I said I'm currently disputing that with Jetty. How long have you been doing this? Have I been doing what? This dispute. It just started because they just made a claim. So I want to say now since the beginning of August. I don't want it to go to collections. Last thing you want is this type of stuff on collections. It'll make it very hard to get a lease again. Synchrony Pink. Oh, well, Synchrony Pink also lowered your credit line. Correct. Okay, so that also.

40:23So maybe you did make more progress and they lowered the credit line. Okay, that was a little out of order. Okay. Toyota. That's what we already looked at. Now we're looking at your credit report. Again, you missed June's payment. That just happened. Yeah. So that's the one where I was telling you I was under the impression that I could just sign a form and, you know, give it back to them and they'll do a deferment. The lady on the phone didn't tell me that I needed to pay basically$200 for each deferment. So they. It shouldn't be deferring anyway. you make money well i wasn't making it right then and there you said you've been doing this for three months yeah that's true but i only get funny how that works i know right um i only get paid bi-weekly so at the time like everyone else in the entire world um no a lot of people get paid weekly and i've heard a lot of people get paid weekly weekly weekly okay if i'm not mistaken on this feel free to correct me weekly often is for like the lowest of income jobs to make it feel like they can pay bills not necessarily um maybe not necessarily but that's how uh some of my intro you know in grade school jobs were working yeah i don't know i've worked in the professional field at a few different companies uh i don't know anyone that's been paid weekly well i've had one person one person i think on the show that was in like an actual professional career that one person out of filming four to five a week that has been paid weekly either way whatever That's not a valid excuse, though.

41:59Most, the vast majority are paid biweekly or semi-monthly, which is twice a month. Well, I come from the security industry. The security industry, the security companies that I was working with, two to be exact, were paying weekly. Okay, but you're trying to say that because you're being paid biweekly is why you missed your car payment. Because everyone else is paid biweekly. I'm paying rent as well. Everyone else is paying rent as well. Yeah, yeah. What the f*** are you talking about? How are you trying to justify that? I'm not necessarily trying to justify it. Yeah, you are. I'm trying to explain more so of why it's late.

42:31I mean, it's late because they want it on a certain day. But you're trying to make it sound like it's late because of that. And, you know, it's okay that it's late because of that. No, it's not necessarily okay. Not that it's okay, but you're trying to justify it. Yeah. Okay. Well. But it's not. The day that I was paid was after, so the day that my car note was did. That's all I want to say. 63 % are paid either bi-weekly or semi-monthly which can vary on which days on particular days not semi-monthly semi-monthly is first and 15th usually yeah but we get paid on a bi-weekly basis so it changes every month depending on the month it could change on those days depending on the month you can actually make an extra paycheck two months a year correct but I haven't gotten to that point yet I can't believe you're trying to say that's you're trying to justify it okay that's crazy stop okay if you know if anyone does basic budgeting it doesn't matter if you're paid weekly bi-weekly semi-monthly it doesn't and then 31 are paid on a weekly basis which is actually more than i thought i will be honest yeah but it is still a vast small minority no yeah i and i definitely agree um it's just more so coming from getting paid on a weekly basis even when fedex i was getting paid every week so getting paid from a weekly basis and then moving over to a bi-weekly basis i wasn't necessarily it's wild i wasn't necessarily prepared for that okay what is this other toyota what do i have another oh wait sorry no what is uh sant santander consumer because that's huge at 32 000 23 547 what's this so i did help my mom get a car oh yeah you the person who's late on bills okay um well what do you mean help what's help what's help what's obviously it's in your yeah i put it in my name uh she's paying for it she has it but has she ever not given you the payment no she's every time she's been on time yes for how long she just got it um in july just yeah she's so far she's done it once great she's so far she's So she's made her payment one time.

44:45Yeah, she's never missed it. Twice. Okay, two times. Yeah, she's never missed it. The two times that she's... Me. Yeah. Why couldn't she get it? Because she has previous things on her credit. Oh, then I am so confident that she's going to pay you every time. Why would you do this to yourself? I understand wanting to do it for your mom. That's a good heart. But why would you do this to yourself? Because there was no other option, I felt like. I felt like I was gonna say there is plenty of other options but I feel like yeah because feeling is not an actual like logical thing so you're right you felt like it but obviously that's great

45:26what's her credit score I believe it's at a 480 oh what's yours 580 what's the interest rate of this 17 % and my credit only went down after of course adding that on there as well so it was at a 620 what is the payment on this 500

45:58she's made it for how much does she make what's her job she also works at FedEx she works in admin for FedEx and what does she make um she makes if I'm not mistaken at least$800 a week net or before taxes? 41 ,000 hours a year net. $600. $3 ,466 a month. So this is 14 % of her income. It's a lot. For just the car payment. She's made it for two months. Good for her. The moment she misses that, this is your credit. This is your credit. The moment that all the other things on our credit that are bad happen to the same thing. It's almost there's a reason why credit scores exist. Who would have thought?

46:50You're 17 percent, five hundred dollar payment. You have a four hundred fifteen dollar payment. You couldn't make a two hundred dollar emergency payment. You're at the time. I couldn't make that payment. Now I am in a position to make that pay. Are you? Are you? You missed your car payment a month ago. Yeah. Two months ago. than my previous payment, of course. You missed your payment two months ago, making the job that you have. This payment costs more. No, what you just said was blatantly incorrect. You could not afford it. Okay, so again, the balance on here is$23 ,000. Oh, so essentially what we need her to do is get funding in any way whatsoever, any way whatsoever, and buy the car from you yeah and anyway any kind of loan anything i don't even care i don't want her to be in bad debt at all but the fact is this is her car and it's under her daughter's name putting you at risk and the relationships can get really weird and really complicated really fast when things start going haywire on this and it's happened on the show many a times agreed she needs to take this over immediately it needs to get out of your name you need to run as far as you can.

48:03Now, legitimately, guys, I believe that you, everyone in your life, everyone around us can actually take control of their financial future and make their lives better. And we've spent over a year here creating tools to help make those goals a reality. Right now, our budgeting program and investing program are bundled together at a 15 % discount and you get$100 in cash gifted to you right into your Moomoo account. There's honestly no time like the present to actually take control of your future don't wait don't let this opportunity pass you so she has to get funding her credits in the 400s so yeah what was the question um more so i was just asking are you like saying that she needs maybe like a personal loan or really anything again i don't want her to get into bad debt it's not that i just need you to get out and this is her responsibility so she essentially needs to receive funding in any way possible that's not like a payday loan obviously or like sharks but but yeah yeah but i took a personal loan for this and i highly doubt she would be qualified in any way for this kind of balance she might have to go to like a it's gonna be like a 25 26 maybe even close to 30 loan which again i don't want her to have but this is not your car should not be in your name it is her responsibility now to deal with whatever consequence if she wants to keep this or she just needs to sell it make up the difference and get a 10 000 car okay because this is ridiculous so she needs to do whatever it takes in personal responsibility you need to push her to do it and again that might also complicate the relationship but this is a very risky situation i agree in your specific mismanagement of money too terrifies me can i'm glad that you have a good job if i'm not mistaken i think hr not hr i do love hr does course careers have a certification hr now i want to say yes i have been looking into that just so I can kind of set myself up for success and kind of in the case.

49:55I'm happy to gift that to you through Course Cruise. I'm happy to do it if they have that. They have a lot of great certifications. This is a real good story about Bronx and his dad, Ryan. Real United Airlines customers. We were returning home and one of the flight attendants asked Bronx if he wanted to see the flight deck and meet Captain Andrew. I got to sit in the driver's seat. I grew up in an aviation family and seeing Bronx kind of reminded me of myself when I was that age. That's Andrew. A real united pilot. These small interactions can shape a kid's future. It felt like I was the captain.

50:26Allowing my son to see the flight deck will stick with us forever. That's how good leads the way. Yeah, we'll do that for free. Because trust me, with this debt, you don't need to be spending money. Ed Financial. Wait, do you have a degree? No. Neither do I. I borrowed student loans. I'm one of the 40 % that borrow student loans but don't get a degree. It happens. um how much school did you go to um i did a semester at lamar university and then uh wait a second i'm sorry why do my producers right now want to ask you if you've paid your taxes in these last couple years um and i have a feeling i know the answer i haven't filed them you haven't even filed you haven't made much money you honestly may have received tax returns but i'm kind of you may have received money we're scared of what you haven't made money receive money that i won't receive money and i'll have to pay no no you're getting money the last time that i did file taxes i had i owed how much did you make that year um i'm not exactly certain are you on like affordable care act any plan related to that are you taking advantage of any social programs because that can affect your tax no um returns i can't honestly remember right now off the top of my head but um i was on how do you not okay i don't remember i'm sorry sorry oh then okay that's fine yeah it was it was a couple of years ago um but when i did go and file my tax return i was expecting to get something back and instead i owed fifteen hundred dollars so what was your job um i didn't even have a job that's the craziest part i was i was in college it was around 2019 2020 what are you talking about what income did you report then i just i gave them my um this documentation that the school gives you i can't remember what it's called it's like a 10 1099, not a 1099, 1098, I think.

52:27I gave them that. And even the little job, matter of fact, I did have a part-time job, but I wasn't making much. That's income. Are you kidding me? How are you not able to answer questions? I'm sorry, but that is still an income to report. I was asking you, what income did you report? That would be an income. I couldn't remember off the top of my head at that second. Because that was back five, six years ago. so yeah 1098 probably a 1098 t or a 1098 e student loan interest statement or tuition statement yes didn't have a mortgage interest statement so again i mean i'm not exactly sure what happened on why that allows you to claim deductions that would not have made you pay more in taxes well they tell me that i owe 1500 they know i get i get that i just i just started understanding This is no offense to you because it's okay that we don't know things.

53:24Like, I'm sure you're very smart in a lot of things. Okay. I just want to make that clear. Obviously, not in personal finance. And something tells me that you probably just did not file correctly. Or you're just not telling me something. No. Because if you only worked a small little part-time job for a couple months, the fact that you had a – Unless did you – when you filled out your W-2, did you not withhold any taxes? But still, even your workplace. No. I don't believe I did. and I don't doubt that I... If you had your withholdings at nothing, that would do it. But even still, with your income situation, your tax rate would have been so low, you must have made more than you thought if you had to pay$1 ,500 at the end of the year, especially with your student loan deduction.

54:03I don't think it was done correctly, to be honest with you. But then again, you were in school, so interest wasn't accruing anyway, so how much would have been deducted? Probably not much. Okay, how much do you have in student loans in total? I don't want to add up each of these individually. um no more than probably about five thousand dollars because i tried to go to school multiple times trying to you know bitter myself for what um three thousand nine hundred twenty six dollars does that sound right that sounds about right thank goodness for being able to employ people to do math because i did not want to add that up three thousand nine hundred twenty six dollars are you making payments on these i'm not at the moment go on why um just because are you in a plan are they deferred or are you just not paying um well at the time when i was about to start paying they were talking about um that's when biden got in office and they were saying that they were gonna okay we're going back two years ago okay yeah so they were saying that's been over for a year now yeah but then i got another email saying that we're looking up you know you can possibly get it um if it basically if it was under a certain amount it will be forgiven that's what i got the call saying are they talking about getting you on the safe plan i did they literally just called me and i still think it was a scam to this day it probably was i get everyone gets calls like you're student loans yeah or no you gotta pick up the phone yeah so probably so please Please don't fall for that.

55:35Please don't answer those calls. I didn't. I didn't fall for it. I did tell them like, yeah, I'm interested. What was it from studentloans.io.russia.putin. Probably. And it was just a call. So I was like, let me call you back. And I never called them back and they never called me back. So that's what makes me think that it was a scam. But other than that, I have not started. Yeah, you haven't made a single payment on student loans. Let me see. It's open. Your payments must be at$0. because it's counting payments. And that is likely because you may have found yourself a way on some income-based repayment.

56:13And obviously your new income isn't reflected on past taxes.

56:21So there is that. And then if you were on save, that might be on deferment. If I'm not mistaken, due to some court things. Or at least on hold. but it isn't counting anything missing your payment would be so small anyway your payment would probably be like 50 bucks a month it's honestly it's not terrible so what did you try to go to school for um i was the first time i was trying to go for hospitality management i really wanted to get into the hotel business um and then when that didn't work out or when COVID happened they ended up sending everybody home and um I tried to do HCC and I was actually gonna go and try to get um certified to do more so like tax preparation because I did want to know a little bit more about it and you know just go from there um however that was when that was when I tried to do it I guess COVID hadn't hit there in Houston yet because I ended up going back to Houston so I was able to enroll able to do everything go get set up for classes and then the day that I went to go start my my first day of school um the doors were locked so they wanted us to go ahead and convert to online classes however I'll be honest that's that's not the way I learned I have to be in person kind of being there and I honestly just didn't get the whole system on how they wanted us to do it and not only that but they never told us that until and then what was your second attempt you said multiple attempts yeah so that was the second attempt the first attempt was the hospitality management in Beaumont I got a little mix up there okay okay I see credit collection services 91 bucks why can't we pay 91 bucks I honestly don't have an excuse for that one.

58:1655 minutes and we still don't even know. I don't have an excuse for that one just because I didn't even know. It was Geico. Oh, yeah. Why not improve our credit from the 500s to the 600s by literally paying a$91 payment? You get a flat reimbursement for being here because people travel. People take time off work. We want to make sure we reimburse people for their time. Take some of that and just do that. That'll improve your credit by at least a few points today. Okay. Jesus. I can do that. All right, collections number one,$91. Take care of that. All right, collections number two. This is for a more substantial$550.

58:57And this originally was from an energy company. You weren't paying your energy bill? Well, basically, I was in a sh** apartment even then. A different sh** apartment? A different sh** apartment. This was in Houston. All right, you got to stop signing leases. I know. it the same situation couldn't get any help um my ac it was literally in the dead of winter and i would walk in my apartment and it would be 61 degrees so i continuously burn some of the roaches start a fire i didn't have a fireplace at the time but yeah i originally tried to get it fixed they kept saying oh yeah it's fixed but we would set it on one thing and then at the time when i was working i was working 12 hour shifts so by the time i lived in a place that hasn't had maintenance issues uh the one i live in now they've been on top of it so far so far how long have you lived there uh three months now okay so it's one of those things where someone has an issue with every single time they've done something ever i start to question like all right how much of it was really the other person's fault not a little bit of yours well that's why i left the first apartment i was here in in wells branch because i felt like it was kind of giving me PTSD I was just you know felt like I was back in the same situation all right well it's not wrong terms that apartment was actually attempting to come in and help me um but eventually they found out that it was an electrical issue and it was making my my light bill go up crazy sure so I kind of got your electricity not light electricity yeah it was it was air conditioning Definitely bringing up my bill.

1:00:40So I ended up. So I'm told you're considering a different career path. Yeah. Even though you're in a great career path making great money. HR has a long way to go. What? Well, this particular position that I'm in with this particular company. Stressful. And I get that. But utilize, build the resume, strengthen this. HR isn't always a 24-hour job. you might be able to find a good nine to five somewhere. Yeah. And that's what I've been doing. As you know, the job market is pretty terrible right now. Okay. Terrible is an over-exaggeration. As good as it was during the frenzy of the pandemic, no. But trust me, if you think this is terrible, wait until you actually see a real recession.

1:01:25Well. Then everyone's going to look back at this time and be like, remember those times? Times were great. Literally doing that now. So, yeah. Well, in my position, I am. because I have been looking for another position. I haven't been able to find something. What do you mean find something? What does find mean? Find another position. What does find mean? I'm applying. You're applying? How much? How often? Pretty much every day, anytime I get the chance. Okay. Are you tailoring your resume to those specific companies and cover letters? I've more so just built it off just based off of my experience that I had.

1:01:58Shopping is hard, right? But I found a better way. Stitch Fix online personal styling makes it easy. I just give my stylist my size, style, and budget preferences. I order boxes when I want and how I want. No subscription required. And he sends just for me pieces, plus outfit recommendations and styling tips. I keep what works and send back the rest. It's so easy. Make style easy. Get started today at stitchfix.com slash Spotify. That's stitchfix.com slash Spotify. Okay. Okay. Well, you know, first of all, I don't know. Resume, a lot of that stuff. a lot of times it goes to like a just like word reader ai crap anyway whether or not you get a job so are you using resume builders or did you just build your own resume um i did use a ai resume builder um but in ai okay yeah okay so i got a pretty good score with them i got a 93 okay so maybe there is some room are you getting calls at all um i have gotten a few calls no offers yet uh you've been in hr for three months yeah uh no for since last october so almost a year okay a lot of people want to see two years of a specific industry role to do that so it might be that might less be a resume thing and more of a you just need to put another year under your belt yeah which again you'll be 24 that's like we've all had jobs i think for the sake of a career one more year is not the worst thing yeah what are the other ventures though that um i'm more so looking into um of course hr positions but i'm also looking into um like uh there's a property tax position that i was kind of looking into okay um for that one i need my real estate license which i have been working on really you're getting a real estate license yeah because the property tax position with like the city yeah um basically so it's property tax protesting um so there are small companies that i've seen with there's a big company i think called onwell that they're pretty popular interesting so you saw an open position have you talked to them i have not so we're getting a whole license just to potentially apply for a job well they're not the only company in the world that does that no i know but what what interests you about that industry well what actually interests me because i was actually before i got here to Austin, I had a temporary contact through a staffing agency with a property protest company.

1:04:28And after I was kind of able to get in a little bit, you know, get a little bit more information as far as what they do. I never even heard of that before. I was actually just a data entry assistant for them. So after kind of going in and getting to talk to some of the agents that they had there it was something that did interest me so um it is something that i'm looking into um just to kind of build up my build myself up anything else or was it just that um that one and that one and uh like i said again just looking into uh tax preparation as well so let's like take a so let's take a look at the check in account 80 bucks spending balance okay So you said you could pay for a$200 emergency now.

1:05:16No. Okay. Hi.

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1:05:55put an x next to the things that are bullshit all right purchases going through the checking account this legendary statement

1:06:18You can mark it next to the item as well. Okay. If that makes it easier. Yeah, I think that would probably do better.

1:06:54Oh, boy. All right. That's good. That's good. I just needed one page to see where your mind is. Game show has concluded. Please. Thank you. Thank you, God. Thank God. I accidentally broke your crayon. you did not break the crayon it was already broken the red crayon this is the game show crayon though okay i don't i'm a little confused this is like we just really don't know but zoom in on this brandon this is what are we doing you got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven out of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. You got a f***ing what? A 55?

1:07:4555 out of 100? You got a f***ing E? You failed. How? How are you justifying going inside of 7-Eleven and getting a$3 bull? $6 bull? Yeah. What are we doing? And Donald's? Donald's isn't bull? In what world is Donald's not bull? Going inside just filling ourselves with bull? How is that not bull? Going inside and getting bulls**t? How's that not bulls**t? How are getting your nails did not bulls**t? Oh, wait. No, you did call that one. You did call that one. Going to a restaurant? You didn't call that bulls**t. Come on. What are we doing?

1:08:17Little Caesars isn't bulls**t? Well, when you don't have any groceries in your house. Then you go to the grocery store. That's an interesting thing. Huh? What a solution. Guys, if you don't have groceries in your store, go to the store where they sell groceries. Yeah. Come on. Sometimes it's like 10, 11 o 'clock at night and they're not open. But no, you're right. I definitely have been preoccupied, a little too preoccupied to go to the grocery store. But what? My job. Okay. Yeah. Come on. What do you mean? You mean literally every second of every day you are on a call or working an email. Every second of every day from 8 a.m.

1:08:55to 11 p.m. Every second, seven days a week. So it starts at 7.30. and my job doesn't end at the office even after five o 'clock i do have to go to um a separate site to then conduct more business so it's more most of the time i work when are you out probably at around eight nine o 'clock at night congratulations the grocery store is still open everyone makes sacrifices people do this all the time you're not a unique cookie in that and i'm sorry to tell you that i know it really sucks i wish i wish i wish it wasn't like that i wish I wish it was easier. There's also curbs I pick up. It could be a little more expensive upsells.

1:09:34But even still, you would save money compared to going out to eat. You're going in and getting some BS. Cash app and out McDonald's. Getting BS, BS, BS. Hop Daddy, Hop Daddy. Chime, is that? That's the mobile bill, right? What's Chime? Chime is kind of like Cash App. It's just another card. All right. So Chime, bullshit. Going to a restaurant. Getting our nails did. Going in and getting some BS. Hop Daddy going in and getting some BS. Little Caesars McDonald's going and getting some BS We're getting snacks, chips For every second of our life Going inside and potentially getting some BS Plus gas maybe I don't know Cash app it out StyleSeats.com Going and getting some BS Timu$248 to Timu First of all that's enough stuff at house and Timu stuff Like that's insane First of all Timu What are you doing Also no you timo i will not let you sponsor this channel stop asking um no i ended up getting a bed frame there from there a timo bed frame did all right should we place a bet on how long until it collapses yeah probably but i'm more so just got it just to get my bed off the floor because ever since i've been here my bed it's gonna be on the floor yeah in like 30 seconds it's been holding up so far especially if we keep stopping at the gas station getting bags of chips that's not gonna to help either going inside getting some bs going inside getting some bs going inside getting some bs we went inside we got some bs we went inside we got some bs mcdonald's amazon cash app after pay cash app taco cabana cash app going to the grill cash app chevron went inside got some bs there sent out some cash app 30 steve madden chime again 500 on chime mcdonald's amazon amazon my throat hurts and i have a lot of things to get through on this statement let me tell you stylec.com we're back baby winning got some bs winning got some bs hop daddy hop daddy you love hop daddy you're from pumice on truffle fries down the throat like crazy because because i am also again a thick boy styles she winning got some bs cash app cash at five below oh got some bs amazon this is this this is just insane this is just insane cash out of money cash out of money winning got some bs winning got some bs winning got some bs winning got some bs mcdonald's winnings i get some bs little caesars got our eyebrows dead well after pay cash out 35 cash out about 65 when i got some bs got our nails dead again when inside get some bs when inside got some bs are you like are you are you the person that works there or something you're there every second of your life taco cabana amazon or do you just like get off and like sniffing the fumes at a gas station because you're there every second of every day winning got some bs water burger cash happen out texas roadhouse and i love me some rolls but also you're not paying bills water burger oh thank you that's the end savings 200 bucks oh where there's a cash app statement as well i'm just like picturing just like this imagine if you just like just even for even just a high yield savings account like okay let's say you opened up a muumuu account okay okay that in there at least for like three months you get an apy on your money of eight point whatever percent it's incredible imagine what all that spending could be doing it could be making money you could be making money on your money instead you're just like oh let me just go inside gas station and get some crap i don't know this cash app is weird it's like 400 38 dollars 5 dollars 25 dollars of cash app payments are those two individuals uh yeah they're blacked out so they must be yeah ah geez i mean hoy oh it takes longer and longer to get through statements these days i swear

1:13:47I don't have anything to say I guess we just need to encourage you a budget To see where you stand Because this is like From that I'm just This is crazy man The other large purchase is $1 ,300 for What in the world Primerica$124 And then Chime$525 What are we doing reminder you spent a thousand six hundred dollars more than you brought in so yeah um well at least for the 500 i can tell you where that the chimes yeah okay so that one was actually helping my mom get the car uh she gave it to me in cash they wouldn't accept the cash so i had to move it to my child card in order to this sucks because i love my mom and i will do anything to help her but there are certain things where I think this one was okay.

1:14:44If they give you cash, you're helping with that. But with the car payment at a certain point, you are one, you've enabled her to get something she can't afford. Probably two. You're also yourself. There is a point where helping other people is actually not the right thing to do. It's a rare case, but there are points where you're doing that. And that is kind of an example of that. Okay. So 4 ,100, 45 ,000, four cents comes in biweekly comes in half of that. Oh no. Biweekly. Well, scary. Debt payments. Let me get that debt payment. I'm losing my damn mind. And then what are you transferring to other people over$1 ,000,$1 ,200, whatever for?

1:15:22More so eating out. There's more? There's$1 ,250 of eating out more? So you spent$1 ,700 eating out. Between eating out and shopping. What are you shopping for? just clothes different things yeah if you keep eating it out i guess you need to keep buying larger and larger clothes meaning you always have to go but that doesn't mean that yeah that's the retail therapy i was talking about earlier okay no more retail therapy go to therapy therapy it's cheaper i don't know that's why i'm here that's what everyone says i want to give you free money right now i've partnered with different resources that will literally give you hundreds of dollars the moment you sign up for them.

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1:16:44All of this free money is linked in the resources section of the description below. So don't pass up the free money because I'll punch you. Your debt payment. It's basically a rent payment on three things is$1 ,191. I'm leaving out of there. Your student loans are likely 50, but they're zero right now. And leaving out the$500 that your mom takes care of. A KFC tale in the pursuit of flavor. The holidays were tricky for the Colonel. He loved people, but he also loved peace and quiet. So he cooked up KFC's$4.99 chicken pot pie. Warm, flaky, with savory sauce and vegetables. It's a tender, chicken-filled excuse to get some time to yourself and step away from decking the halls.

1:17:24Whatever that means. The Colonel lived so we could chicken. KFC's Chicken Pot Pie The best$4.99 you'll spend this season Prices and participation may vary Supplies last Taxes tips and fees extra Because, you know, she gives it to you She gives it to you in cash? No, she actually just makes the payment directly herself Oh, I was gonna say, okay Because we didn't see anything come in Okay, what's your rent? $14 ,000, altogether$14 ,000 What's all together? What's all together? All the utilities? Yes Okay, does that include internet? Yes Water, electric, gas? Water, electric, gas Wonderful Renters insurance?

1:17:57Rent-ins insurance is probably an extra$20. Cool. Gas, vroom, vroom, drive, drive. I fill up weekly, and it's no more than$30. Good thing you don't do it biweekly. It would be unmanageable. Yeah. Sorry. Long conversation. It's always the second half of the week. After so many of these conversations, I start to lose it. I feel good for the person who comes on a Monday because I'm like, Oh, how you doing? Yeah. Oh, well, it's that bad, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Oh, don't do that. And by the end, I'm like pulling out a Glock. Please don't pull out the Glock. What's your car insurance? My car insurance is$130 a month, but my mom takes care of it.

1:18:44Okay. Groceries,$300. Follow the meal plan in our budgeting program. You can tweak it to your needs. $100 TP fund. This is getting your nails did. anything else you need to survive you can put it in there okay that can even include a little bit of fun if you're able to keep your needs on a low basis okay co-pays medications doctor's appointments therapies co-pays i don't have insurance right now why um because when i first according to your last tax day first of all why is your job not covering that because when i first got there their insurance is pretty high so i wasn't making enough to afford that and then afford my bills as well so i never signed up i'm sure they had another i'm sure the lowest option i don't know i don't i can't really trust you're not a reliable narrator in a lot of these finances i mean all you can do is trust me right yeah but i can't as a thing based on everything you've said at the beginning of the conversation well i'm like you haven't been able to describe a lot of these things accurately so yeah well the thing about it is is like i said when i first got here i was making 18 with the same company yeah i got you so with your income situation on the healthcare exchanges or even just going through like a brokerage that would find you one um and you could have found health insurance outside of it and because the government thinks you don't make much money because of last year that's their most updated thing you could have honestly probably gotten like hundred dollar a month health insurance that was halfway decent right now and even still what i would do is at a minimum because you can go bankrupt through this medical things go out there and get literally the cheapest health insurance possible to cover you in the case of a deep emergency yeah at a minimum basis at least go to that i'm putting 200 i'm putting 200 a month in here okay well as of right now i have found some resources so what about your mom does she have health insurance i can't speak to that i don't you can be on it until 26 i don't think she does i don't know what's your dad not a picture okay i put okay what were you gonna say Oh, I was just saying that I did find a place here that put me in touch with different resources that were free.

1:20:50So it's not. No, you still need insurance, though, for big emergencies. You can't use these resources for putting 200 bucks there. OK. And that that's going to be cheaper than next year. But again, just based on what your tax returns say, you might be able to qualify for some things. Hang up and mute that phone. Put it on. Do not disturb. Naughty, naughty. Subscriptions. Nope. Do you have any pets? I do. What? um a uh dog i don't know exactly what she what breed she is i would still pet her it's okay uh pet insurance pet insurance yeah no not yet okay i'm putting in there 25 bucks a month okay pet insurance that'll also save you money because you're not gonna let it die if it chokes no pet food um probably at the most 30 bucks and it lasts me yeah but no not maybe about a month and a half it's a pretty good i'm putting 30 she's small yeah phone bill 176 is your phone bill yes do you have like an apple watch an ipad financed what are you doing 176 um it's just really more more five iphones no just my phone and my service and then t-mobile i have t-mobile what are you talking about yeah it's my phone that and then i also had prepaid internet with them but i recently got rid of that because i didn't know that my apartment's actually when you pay off your phone switch to helium for 20 bucks a month it's the same tower as t-mobile's okay okay but you have your phone finance so i'm gonna put in there what is it 175 175 you need to fix that honestly might be worth paying off early so that you can switch to a cheaper thing i think anything else i need to put in your budget no while i'm doing this math what do you think of the financial audit experience so far so far i have enjoyed it um i feel like that's why i came here because i kind of need somebody to call me out on some of that stuff you know some people watching this video right now that like to complain think you're a victim for being on here Are you a victim?

1:23:01No, I don't feel as though I'm a victim. You're a victim because there's a man making noise across the table from you slightly louder than inside voice. No. Okay. Well, you need$3 ,561.50 a month to live. Good news. You make$4 ,145.04. So we should be making much more progress. But again, we know you spend now we know thousands of dollars on fun a month. Yeah. A lot through Cash App. But are you willing to stop that? Because if you're retail therapy going out to eat. No. Yeah, I'm definitely willing to stop that. So what's different today than previously? Like, well, how are you going to stop that if you've literally been spending 1 ,500, 2 ,000 hours a month on fun?

1:23:49Well, at the time when I was spending it, of course, I felt like, yeah, I don't need. I know I shouldn't have been doing it, but I was doing it just because I could. I felt that I could, but evidently going through the numbers, I cannot. All right, 583. I would immediately kill that one collection just to raise your score a bit, that$91. Put the rest toward savings. Cool, 500 bucks in savings essentially. And then next month I would do that again. Honestly, this next quarter I would do that. and honestly i just i can't have you in a scary situation again so honestly through the end of the year i'm doing minimum payments on the debts okay uh yeah actually even that 91 collections i'm leaving it there okay set up that 583 583 through december so through the end of this month oh wait we're not in september yet are we no still in august four more months i know how months work and that gets you two thousand three hundred thirty two dollars by the end of the year still doesn't even cover a full month but at least we have that as a starter and then first month next year i'd really like to by the end of this year um see about getting out of that car lease and hopefully have a so you said they would only put in roll so i'm a little confused what did they tell you they would do with the lease they told me that if i give it back that day that they would only give me 32 000 towards what would 32 000 towards the remaining balance of the lease yes and i would still owe 8 000 oh yeah so that's why i hadn't given it back but like i said i want to really look i really know it'd be but i would talk with them if they're if they have a 10 000 hour used car that you can get certified by a mechanic that will last your years for safety and reliability.

1:25:44If you can get a 10 ,000 hours, roll that, and I hate this, but it might be what you have to do in your situation. Roll that negative$8 ,000 over an equity. Since it's with the same dealership, they might let you do that. Oh,$18 ,000 on that car. Yeah. And again, it's gonna be at a straight probably but probably ranging 15 20 maybe um payment's not gonna be that much better though it's gonna be easier to pay off because the thing is is the lease it's still not mine still not yours and what you'd have to do at the end is get another lease but it's a lot less controlled ah well but the thing is even if you could move over to finance this car no no not this one that if i were to go ahead and trade it in and get well that's what we're that's what i'm talking about anyway what do you mean another lease no so what i'm just i'm sorry i'm just trying to math it is out so your payment's not gonna be that much better yeah but if it's unless you get like a 72 month loan like i'm not gonna get you anything larger than three years um so it's just because if you pay off this lease then instead of re-upping just call it good and even get a cheaper lease for a bit while you're taking care of the rest of this debt it's a option but mathematically in terms of a minimum payment option might not be the worst it's complicated yeah so i my original plan was to keep it until the end of the year try to stave up as much money as possible while still making a minimum you're only able to 2 300 though well if i cut out some of my spending and also that was just cutting your spending to zero except for your needs okay well yeah have you been here no i was here i just maybe misunderstood stood but i was just really trying to see if i can get a cash car so that way i can just get out of it no because i'm not going to get you a 2 000 car because unless you get a really unique situation that's impossible to find oddly enough one of my employees did find a weird 1 000 car situation and it's like in good condition but it was just a weird thing someone looking to get rid of a car but whatever either way like you're not going to find a reliable car for that much in cash so yeah it's like that's just going to put you in a worse situation in the long run with all the repairs and then you need to get another car what i would personally do is i would probably take that trade-in option roll the negative equity over and get the cheapest reliable used cars you can i'm saying 10 but see if you can get something closer to 7 000 8 or 8 000 i'm still doing only like a three-year four-year loan because you're probably going to want to stretch it out to like eight years to lower the minimum payment but it's not worth it because we're just going to paid off early anyway i just don't want to give you the ability to stretch it out over eight years because you could take the longer one with the lower minimum payments and then eventually pay off it quicker but i don't want you to have the excuse to be able to stretch it out that long so i'm probably doing that synchrony card no the apartment hopefully that's negotiated down synchrony card that's the first you're tackling still gonna take seven months six to seven months to pay off.

1:29:04So it's going to be halfway through next year. The Navy Federal, this is crazy that I'm even suggesting this because, I mean, I do have the moral responsibility of pay back the debt that you borrowed, but it's so substantial and it's going to take so long to pay off. $5.83. Oh, sorry, you make$5.83. No, no, you'll pay off the synchrony card in four months. You have an extra$5.83, so okay, four months. But even still, the$17 ,000 alone, It takes multiple years to pay off. You can do that. Part of me, and I'm not suggesting to do this because I don't know. I want to think on it a little longer. Part of me is allowing it to go to collections and then trying to negotiate with them to only pay half of it because it's so substantial.

1:29:45But you could pay it off in a couple years. With that extra$120 a month that you're rolling over from Synchrony, you should be able to tackle it in maybe a little under two years. And then you have that new car to take care of. with then rolling over, that's going to take another two years. You could be out of this if you don't finagle at all and you just stick to the minimum payments and you do that car thing we talked about. You could get out of this in four years. And then a fully funded emergency fund and everything. Let's call it five years total. You could do that. Now, you know, obviously incomes increase over time, so we roll that in.

1:30:23And you'll have, and once you pay off the Navy Federal, you'll have an extra$4.15 to throw towards the car on a monthly basis. So actually, I think this in total could be four and a half years with the fully funded emergency fund at the end. You have a long journey. The thing is you don't have a lot of different debts and then you're taking care of the questions as well. But then you don't have a lot of different debts but you have a risky situation with your mom's car. Student loans are a little unknown. And then the debts you do have are very high debts. Yeah. I would grind it out. You can potentially consider a collections and negotiation.

1:30:55I don't know. I would personally grind it out on my own end. that's how I would do it that's kind of how I've been trying to do there's even debt payoff services makes sense yeah because I'd honestly like to keep my Navy Federal account and everything because I did talk to a debt consolidation or the JG Wentworth people and all that stuff but I don't trust them I can't really trust anybody right now to be honest with you so I've talked to them and everything but I just don't want to necessarily close or put a stain on my navy federal why do you care about navy federal um just because they have some decent benefits and um i was able to get a lot of opportunity with them as far as um you know even just getting that card that credit card no it wasn't necessarily smart but at the time i did need it when i first got it and then it just started building from there honestly i'd rather have you look at the relief app let me send that to you it's a better debt payoff type of system okay again it's meant for more extreme cases when i typically use a resource like that oh is this not an extreme case this is and that's why I'm considering look at them.

1:32:20So that's what I would do. So yeah, look at the Relief app potentially and we'll send you the information on that. We'll probably put them in our resource section as well. Okay. Spending in a budget, you're overspending 0 out of 10 collections and debt, so 0 out of 10 emergency fund. You have 200 saved. 500. I'll be generous and give you a 1 out of 10 return. That scares me by the way. 0 out of 10 real estate, nothing 0 out of 10. We only round up unless I hate someone and I don't hate you. You're a very pleasant person. 0.5 out of 10. Make sure to check out all the resources linked in the description below.

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