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Speaker 2: If you want to go rent someplace else by yourself,

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Speaker 2: you can still do that.

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Speaker 1: You could own your home, allow it to continue to

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Speaker 1: purchased this property from the city for ten thousand dollars. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Saying that when you have real estate, you have the

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Speaker 2: What like this rent life outside of this looks.

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Speaker 3: Like Yeah, and I'm wondering too if, like I get

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Speaker 3: but the rich auntie life and she's forty. No kids

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Speaker 3: And and like you got this new job, I really

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Speaker 3: If you want some freedom, there's nothing stopping you from

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Speaker 3: like the vulnerabilities that renting could open you up to,

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Speaker 3: and I don't know what vulnerabilities. They may be different

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Speaker 3: if you can't make your rent payments, but then you have.

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Speaker 1: A house, say like you know, with renting, I mean

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Speaker 1: to me, there's financial vulnerability because you don't really grow anything, right,

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Speaker 1: So I just think that like I want you to

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Speaker 2: Still the budgetista.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, right sold that house

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Speaker 2: I'm keeping it because it's going to continue to raise.

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Speaker 1: You know, my sister and her kids will live in

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Speaker 1: You know, we're closing around the five hundred thousand, you know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: you know, So just keep that in mind as you're

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Speaker 1: you're here to tell money what to do, but you

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Speaker 1: this is the life I want to live. Let me

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Speaker 1: be smart in these choices. So, but welcome sins.

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Speaker 2: It's cute over here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, thank you so much for sending your question

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Speaker 3: into okrap. Was her name, el Ela el Ell. That

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Speaker 3: was really great of you to send a question. Thank

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Speaker 3: you so much. I want to know my follow up

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Speaker 3: question is, like, what was your curer pivot from being

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Speaker 3: and keep us posted all right on your journey, rich

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Speaker 3: auntie journey. I feel like we have a lot of

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Speaker 2: What girl I is here for the rich Johns we

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Speaker 2: take the same time.

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Speaker 1: I'm new to this riche Auntie live. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: well that's not true. I've been I made it, but

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Speaker 1: I was a married with Johnty. So now that I'm

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Speaker 1: a single with Chounty, I'm like, what y'all do out here? Like?

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Speaker 2: What else should I be up to? I'm I think

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Speaker 2: I want to take up crocheting. I know it doesn't satisfancy,

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Speaker 2: but I'm like, what happens is that.

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Speaker 3: For Michelle Obama? It's good enough for anyone?

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know I'm in my.

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Speaker 3: I'm in my we got food at home stage. That's

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Speaker 3: the stage I'm in. Just ask my husband every day

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Speaker 3: this week, I'm like, the menu will be leftovers. I

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