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  • You clearly listen to too much Ramsey. No credit is a credit score of 0. Bad credit is 580. It is going to take time to repair either one but if you’re running a race, do you want to start at 0, or 2/3 of the way to the finish line?

    Even if rates are 10%, ownership is better than paying a landlord rent. Equity, equity, equity… High interest rates are when you upgrade or purchase more property to build wealth. Just ride it out and refinance when the rates come down.

    Having a high credit score makes everything easier. A high credit score is also something required for certain jobs. Ramsey comes up with “workarounds” for when his advice about not having credit doesn’t work out.


  • Consider downloading some kind of checkbook ledger app. Anytime you get paid, re-balance it and make sure it’s correct. Then, use it for EVERY purchase that isn’t cash. Once you get into the habit of not needing to re-balance it, switch 100% of your purchases to credit card, and keep the habit up. When it comes time to pay your credit card bill, you will have the cash you need to pay it off, and you will also be building credit which will give you more purchasing power down the road.


  • A lot of the stuff Ramsey says is good for Ramsey; not anyone else, and certainly not the public. I 100% agree with him that (most) debt is bad, but having no credit is worse than bad credit. If you want a strain on the system (what we have now), you deny credit to people that aren’t credit worthy (*people without credit) so that they cannot afford to purchase homes. A mortgage is debt, but it’s not “bad-debt.”