12 – The First-Time Home Buyer’s To-Do List
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The biggest mistake at the top of everyone’s list in buying a home is thinking that everyone’s top five biggest mistakes are the same. Every first-time home buyer is different with a different set of circumstances, variables, and most importantly, goals. Your top list of mistakes to avoid is your own. There are things that most everyone should be careful of, but many of them can be avoided by having one thing at the top of your list – hiring a professional realtor. Don’t do this alone. You deserve to know all the ins and outs and secrets to doing this right. Forget the lists. Do your own research and hire a pro who will adjust to your list. But, since you asked…here’s David’s list.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the top five most important, crucial life or death items that every first time homebuyer must know. |
| 0:09.2 | But the question is, why stop at just five? |
| 0:13.2 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:14.5 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the How to Buy a Home podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | I am David Sidoni, your How to Buy a Home Guy. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm a Realtor with EXP Realty, and today we're going to be |
| 0:40.3 | getting into those all-important, all-crucial life-altering top five lists, top five, top |
| 0:49.2 | 10, whatever it is. These lists are a great way to get everyone's attention. And they're lists on general things |
| 0:56.9 | on subjects that need clarification. And what folks out there have figured out is the best way to get |
| 1:02.9 | you to click on their attempt to clarify something, but truly actually to just sell you something, |
| 1:10.5 | is to let you know the top five |
| 1:13.6 | worst things, the top five biggest mistakes. We all want to be living our best life while we're |
| 1:21.2 | trying to figure this out. So avoid the pitfalls. I was looking at hashtag adulting on Twitter, and it's graduation time now, |
| 1:31.2 | 2019. I saw a whole bunch of graduates, high school and college, tweeting that the things |
| 1:38.6 | they should teach you in school, like to balance a checkbook, to interview for a job, to save for |
| 1:43.9 | retirement, to buy a house. |
| 1:46.4 | But hey, that Pythagorean theory, it's going to come in real handy someday, I'm sure. |
| 1:51.9 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:54.0 | We're going to go through the list of things that are important to you and talk about why you are so excited about those lists. |
| 1:59.4 | I once again, appreciate everyone being here tonight. |
| 2:02.4 | I'm doing something new again. I'm doing two podcasts tonight. You heard episode number 11 talking |
| 2:08.0 | about lenders and the online lenders. This is episode 12 talking about the top five mistakes. |
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