11 – Should A First Time Home Buyer Use A National Internet Lender Instead Of A Local?
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The internet is said to be the land of opportunity. There are so many deals, discounts, and hacks around. However, should you be looking for the hacks and quick deals online from national internet lenders for the biggest financial transactions of your life? Are you looking for a Groupon loan experience? This is that big deal out there, and don’t let your skepticism or fear keep you from putting in the time and research to choose the right professional to help you ask some bank to lend you money. You should shop around and find a pro who can get you the best deal, but where do you start? 50% of first time home buyers started online in 2018 when looking to get approval to buy their first house. Is this the best place to start? What are the other options? How do you navigate this overwhelming event? Let David show you some answers here with real talk and real help.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so you're ready to get serious about buying a home. |
| 0:03.2 | The first thing to do is get pre-approved for a loan on the internet, right? |
| 0:07.9 | Let's find out. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey, everybody. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. It's David Sedoni here. You're How to Buy a Home Guy. |
| 0:34.4 | Exciting news tonight. We got some new things going on. We're going to do a little bit of question and answer. Also, we got two more homes in escrow this week. Two more first-time |
| 0:38.1 | buyers. We're up to 81 for the David Sedonia Associates Real Estate team. So I'm a little unshaven |
| 0:43.4 | and worked my face off this weekend. It was pretty awesome. But on the podcast, those you got me in |
| 0:48.9 | your ear holes, we're excited because we're going to be talking to you about some questions that |
| 0:52.9 | have come in for me. The podcast is starting to grow. Thank you guys so much. I'm so excited about getting this |
| 0:58.5 | mission out there. The small mission is to help each and every one of you. The big mission is to |
| 1:03.8 | help the entire real estate industry to stop being such idiots and to pull their heads out of |
| 1:09.4 | their collective butts and start realizing that |
| 1:11.9 | you guys are important. How important? Well, let's talk about it this way. The 2018 first-time |
| 1:19.0 | buyer numbers are out and 33% of all of the buyers of the homes were first-time buyers, |
| 1:26.2 | buyers or sellers. |
| 1:31.9 | There were over 5 million homes bought and sold in the United States last year. |
| 1:32.9 | 33%. That's 1.65 million. |
| 1:35.7 | Probably a little more than that, actually, because we had more than five. |
| 1:39.1 | And the average age of the first-time buyer? |
| 1:41.8 | 32. |
| 1:42.8 | 32 years old. |
| 1:44.1 | Now, a bunch of them were younger than that, a |
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