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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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We live in metro Phoenix, in a 70s tract house that we’ve been gradually re-doing. We paid off over $147,000 in debt (actually way over that amount, if you want to count a $210,000 rental property that I sold at a slight loss.) After we got a taste of life without credit card debt, I wanted to pay off my student loan.

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