Think you can't buy a home because of your student loans or it's just too tough to buy as a single lady.

Or maybe you've tried to buy, but it feels like this housing market is some sort of sick version of hunger games.

Well, instead of me telling you today, you can do this, you're going to hear from Stephanie and how she overcame all of that and a lot more.

And she did it.

Time for another real first-time homebuyer story.

I know. All right, everybody, it's another one of your favorite episodes in interview with a just recently closed first-time home buyer.

This is Stephanie, and she's very excited to be here today.

She told me that she's sorry she doesn't have blinds. That's how new she is to her home. I told her it gives her a

nice glow of home ownership with all the sunlight behind her. Stephanie, tell us, when did you get in this

home? So I closed on May 25th, and I moved in on June 17th.

That's awesome.

Okay, so I'm going to jump.

I was going to say I'm going to jump right into it then.

So you had a little crossover there, a little extra time from your apartment into this.

Yep.

Yep, because I knew I wanted to, you know, take the time to pack. I just paid for the extra

month of rent, figured, you know, it gave me time to come here and get things cleaned out.

And I got the carpet shampooed and took some measurements so that I could start to think about

what I wanted to put where. That's very cool.

It is something, you know, people will ask me about their closing costs.

And I know everyone tries to stretch as far as they can, but I always try to tell people,

think about the fact that you might want to cover it for an extra month.

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