Well tomorrow is Tuesday, and for the last 13 weeks we've been heading over the the west end of the city to lead our weekly Financial Peace University. Steve and I have really enjoyed leading the course and seeing other people start down a path of financial security like we have.
We had such a great group, a good mix of ages, genders, and from all stages of life. Some were married, some were single, some were engaged. Some were grandparents, some had babies. Some people owned their homes, some rented, and some were hoping to move from renting to owning soon. It was a great opportunity for us to show what we had learned and to help pass that on.
By the end of the course, we had about 10 households pay off, or save up over $50,000 all together. I was so proud!! Quite a few of the families had completely paid off their debts and were working to get their emergency funds in place. Some families even accomplished their fully funded emergency fund!! We were very excited to see the progress that each family made.
As for Steve and I, we are now giving our kitchen a facelift, and the selling the house! We will be looking for a great deal somewhere, as we have been for a couple of years now. Our real estate agent feels that January or February should bring along a few great deals, and we need to be ready to jump on those quickly! We may even take the chance and sell our house before we find a deal. I'm not too eager to do that, because it puts us in a place where we could be without a home for a little while. At that point in time, we'd be far more motivated to make purchase and may not have the patience to wait for a great deal.
We are excited though, it's been 5.5 years in this little duplex, and we are simply outgrowing it. We are both looking forward to moving on to our next investment, another home that we can live in and add value to.
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