EFFORTPOST In his lane, unbothered, bills unpaid, blinged out, in a Benz, in control

Nathan, 26, Austin TX

Personal:

• Wearing a $600 watch timestamp

  • Claims he got it on sale 20% off

• "It was a Christmas gift for myself"

• "It's a nice watch, I wanna get another one I just don't have the funds to do so right now. But as soon as I do I'm gonna get one" timestamp

• "Did you graduate high school?" timestamp

  • "Yeah, it was hard though" "Numbers and stuff, the start to look funny after a while"

• "You bought yourself a watch and you said you'd do it again" timestamp

  • "Well I bought myself some - uh nevermind"

Career:

• "I sell cars" "Gross" timestamp

• "My customers love me"

• "I don't just care about my commission checks, I care about people"

• New car place for 2 months

  • first month between two and three thousand

  • Attempt to figure out just how much he makes timestamp

    • "They take it back when I get my commission check"

    • "It's hard to say just what I make... I don't pay attention to it"

  • Was making 7 or 8 thousand dollars a month at his old car place

    • Thinks he will need 4 months to ramp back up to this

    • Had gotten a promotion at his old place but didn't like it as much as he thought it would be

• "Well there's also the 1099 income from the manufacturer.... I didn't report that so I guess it could be something extra" timestamp

  • "I didn't have the money to pay the taxes on it, I spent it all"

• Not setting money aside for taxes?

• Checks his March income later timestamp

  • 9'000 before taxes and minimum wage removal, around 6'000 after all that is taken out

Finances:

• He has two phones because he wanted two phone numbers

• "[The debt]'s not 'new new' it's been there, it just got worse" timestam

• Credit Card 1 (Revy) (302,32) timestamp

  • 205 amount past due, "I had to pay my rent so I couldn't pay the card"

  • 4 months of missed payments, what a king. Frick that card.

• Credit Card 2 (CreditOne) ($500/$500) timestamp

  • Got this one after the repo - only card that would "help him out"

  • He thinks this one is closed but not sent to collections yet

• Credit Card 3 (Also CreditOne) [timestamp](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EdQqpTHnzlQ%26t%3D12860

• Card 3 (738)

  • $125 past due - 2 payments

• Credit Card 3 (Also CreditOne) (1500/1200) timestamp

  • $268 past due (3 payments)

• Credit Card 4 timestamp

  • He paid this off "It's on automatic payments"

  • "I didn't catch it in time, if I'd a caught then that one would not be on autopay"

• Credit Card 5 timestamp

  • $1 of credit free

• Rent $2250 a month

  • Rents a townhouse timestamp

  • Two bed, two bath, attached two car

  • Signed lease last year, just resigned in February

• Car got repoed "that was in the past" timestamp

  • 4 years ago "That wasn't my fault though, that was somebody else that did that"

• "My plan is to make more money"

• CashApp Payments timestamp

• Car (14'000) [timestamp](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EdQqpTHnzlQ%26t%3D1557

  • Paid the car bill late, ate a $20 late fee

  • Caleb seethes over a 2015 Chrysler 200 for some reason

  • "It was a steal"

    • dealership advertised a price but then charged him a higher price

    • Got it in 2020

  • 24% interest rate, got this car soon after his other was repoed

  • Doesn't drive this around?

    • Doesn't drive it around because he got a new car, he's trying to sell and find someone gullible to take over the payments timestamp

      • "So you're going to prey on people"

        • "Nah I'm helpin help them out, it's like a quid pro quo"

  • Has hail damage. There's some weird insurance thing timestamp

  • Owes 14'000 on this $8'000 car timestamp

    • "So that's not super terrible"

• Car 2 (28'700) timestamp

  • Mercedes, this is the one he drives around

  • $650 minimum payment

  • 18% interest rate

  • "It's in really good condition"

• Car 3 (13'700) timestamp

  • This was the one that got repoed

  • Nissan

  • Was in a relationship for 3-4 years, he bought a car for her mother, the mother made payments on it for 6 months but when the relationship ended and she stopped paying on it

• Energy Bill from 2023 that he didn't pay

  • From his old place probably, he didn't know about it

  • $600 bill

  • "You paid for your credit report and you never went through it once?!" timestamp

    • "No"

• Personal Loan

  • Mentioned and then forgotten about?

• Checking Account (-$50) timestmap

  • Lots of eating out lmao

  • He's subbed to near a dozen streaming services

    • "I be watchin shows"

• Credit Score 567 timestamp

  • "It was worse but I've put in work"

Finances Pie Chart timestamp

Attempts to form a budgeting plan timestamp