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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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San Antonio, Texas is our home when we aren’t traveling the world. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Daniel took on an extra job doing support work for an online company that he could do from home. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt. From what we learned in the course, we wrote our Debt Freedom Plan. 1 – Save a starter Home Emergency Fund. 10 – Pay Off Mortgage Debt. .

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Stressed out, we ventured into Dave Ramsey’s online Financial Peace University home course for help. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. But $1000 was not nearly enough money to cover sudden emergencies in both our home and business. DONE November 2019.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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I am a stay at home mom to 3 kiddos and a cockapoo named Otis. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? Total, we paid off $175K in 2 years!! 130K in mortgage debt.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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Other than the student loans, everything else was consumer debt from 13 years of trying to “keep up with the Jones’ “ We finally managed to get the debt paid off two years and two weeks from the time we started this journey. What inspired you to become debt free? Was there a particular event?

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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Our business was doing very well, and we were excited about the opportunity to own a property outside of our home. After the first year, the new business debt weighed on me. How We Paid off Six Figures on Non-Mortgage Debt: Our non-mortgage debt was in the six figures when we wrote Our Debt Freedom plan and included 5 loans.

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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I’m a former 3rd grade teacher, but now a stay at home mom and a graphic designer of Joyful Art Designs. There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt. Our plans for me to be a stay at home mom on one teacher salary. Since we didn’t have any other debt, we decided to tackle our house as fast as we could.

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