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Speaker 1: I love this podcast. And Tiffany, I've been a part

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Speaker 2: Here's my question. What would be the best way to

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Speaker 2: And that's collectively, that's collectively together.

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Speaker 1: Yep, I'm not gonna lie. That's not that bad.

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Speaker 2: Wet's take each of those three types. We don't know

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Speaker 3: To Well, I would I personally like the snowball methods.

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Speaker 3: So I like the snowball method, although obviously that this

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Speaker 2: If you guys have strong credit scores. There's lots of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and to me, it rarely is worth it, so

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, So I mean, except for like maybe

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