Podbit · The Ramsey Show
An unmarried woman paid off $15,000 of her boyfriend's debt while living in his mother's beach house and paying the mortgage. If he walks, she gets nothing. Dave's warning is stark: you are legally and relationally exposed in a way most cohabiting couples refuse to see.
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Randy from Shreveport retired last year and lost his mother shortly after. She willed her farm to him and his sister, and now they're considering selling. Randy is worried about capital gains tax exposure and asks if a trust can shield them. Dave immediately cuts to the most important concept: the stepped-up basis. When you inherit a capital asset, the tax basis resets to market value at the date of death — meaning if the farm hasn't appreciated significantly in the one year since mom passed, the gain on a sale is essentially zero. Dave cautions that county tax assessments are meaningless for this purpose; only a real appraisal at the time of death matters. He also explains the broader principle with a stock example: if grandpa bought Exxon for $20,000 and leaves it worth $1 million, the heirs pay zero tax if they sell it shortly after death. The advice is crisp: get a real appraisal, sell it, claim zero gain, and only revisit if audited.
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The manosphere begins with genuinely useful advice — get fit, be ambitious, find a partner. But it rapidly devolves into dominance, misogyny, and crypto university grifts. The most famous manosphere figures are running $50-a-month Ponzi schemes, exploiting the very loneliness they pretend to cure.
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