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How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast

118 - Interview With First Time Home Buyers - Planning For Expensive Cities

How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast

David Sidoni

Education, News, Business News, Investing, Business, How To

4.8891 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Moving to a big city takes a lot of work and not to mention a lot of money. Living comfortably in a big city is a dream for many even. For first-time home buyers Andre and Lenay, this is something there were able to achieve on a non-movie star budget as they moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California – the home of the movie stars. Tune in on this episode to know how they did it!



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Living in Hollywood can be expensive. Andrew and Lanay moved to the land of showbiz to live out

0:05.5

their dreams and work in the glamorous world of entertainment. They discovered that to live there,

0:11.1

it was going to end up costing them $2,300 a month for a tiny little one-bedroom apartment.

0:16.6

So this is their story of trading in that ludicrously high rent for that teeny little apartment

0:22.5

to actually get their dream home that was just adjacent to the city of dreams.

0:29.2

Here we go.

0:51.1

Yeah. Hi, everybody. It's your favorite kind of podcast. We've got Andrew and Lanay. Tell everybody, where are you guys?

0:53.9

We're in Claremont, California.

0:56.0

Claremont.

1:00.1

Now, for people who don't know because we're a gigantic state, I know where Claremont is because I know where the candlelight dinner theater pavilion is.

1:04.1

That's my sad life.

1:07.6

Tell everybody where Claremont is.

1:10.2

Yeah, no, it's like the most eastern part of Los Angeles,

1:14.3

basically. It's like the very edge of Los Angeles County. Very cool. Well, the interviews,

1:20.8

people love to hear these. Now, we've had a couple 19-year-olds that I've interviewed who purchased

1:26.3

their first home, which is just amazing.

1:29.4

You guys are in my neck of the woods. So those you out there who are possibly looking at some

1:34.3

really expensive property, I think Andrew and A. can help you. They reached out to me. And normally,

1:41.6

I've got friends in L.A. and the area up there, it takes a gigantic plan.

1:47.1

So you guys weren't buying a little $100,000 house.

1:51.2

So tell me about your journey to get to where you did like what I guess I would call some serious adulting.

1:59.4

Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think it really just started that like, I mean, for a while,

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