103 - Lessons for Home Buyers of Any Age with an Interview with a 59 ½ Year Old First Time Home Buyer
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Cynthia realized she had been renting for way too long, so she did the research, found a team, and bought a home in the cold of Chicago in 2022! How is that even possible??? Hear it straight from a buyer like you and get real-life tips from someone who's been through it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Yeah, there are some boomers and Gen X people that you don't have to clap back at with, |
| 0:04.6 | OK, Boomer. There are people of other ages who feel just the same way that you do. Cynthia is 59. |
| 0:11.3 | And this is an interview with her. And she thought she could never buy a home. Does that sound |
| 0:16.7 | familiar? She lives like a millennial. She travels. She's single. She drinks wine. She loves her music. |
| 0:23.7 | She eats organic food. And she's been changing careers her entire life. So how did she buy a home? |
| 0:30.6 | Let's find out. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah. What is happening my how to buy a homies. |
| 0:48.3 | This is a really great interview and it's got tons of life lessons and things for buyers of any age. Cynthia's going to |
| 0:57.1 | tell you her story and you're going to learn tips and tricks and scary things that you want to |
| 1:02.6 | avoid. All of that comes from her story. Listen close and you're going to hear real life lessons on |
| 1:08.0 | these topics. Staying in your budget and being able to sleep at night |
| 1:11.9 | when you find out what your new payment's going to be. Learn the truth about those first-time |
| 1:16.2 | buyer seminars brought to you by local realtors and local lenders. How you can do this on your own, |
| 1:21.9 | not having to wait for an inheritance that might not come for a lot of years. Simpia's dad's |
| 1:26.8 | 90 and still kicking. |
| 1:28.3 | You're going to learn about Cynthia researching and educating herself to help block out the haters. |
| 1:32.6 | All the other boomer friends she had out there telling her not to touch her retirement. |
| 1:36.6 | And she figured out even at 59.5 years old, when she ran the numbers for herself, |
| 1:41.2 | instead of listening to everybody else and their old fearful philosophies, |
| 1:46.3 | she saw the long-term benefits of diversifying her portfolio. You're also going to hear about |
| 1:51.0 | finding a comparable monthly payment close to her rent payment on a $221,000 home that's going |
| 1:57.5 | to work for her for the rest of her life, the home and the payment. |
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