Day 8: Home Sweet Home

This post is part of a series on Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University (FPU). The following is my impression of small pieces of the class. For more, I highly recommend taking the class for yourself.

Having covered Baby Steps 4 and 5 simultaneously in his lesson on investing, Dave Ramsey moves on to his bread and butter: real estate and paying off the mortgage early (Baby Step 6). This is where he both made his fortune and stumbled and fell into bankruptcy in his personal life many years ago, so he has plenty of wisdom to share on this topic. As a former real estate agent, Ramsey shares many “tips and tricks” for those purchasing or selling real estate that I won’t go into here – most of it is information you can find online, like making sure you get a home inspection and appraisal.

The One Exception

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