151 - How Much Time Do You Need To Plan to Buy Your First Home?
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Everyone wants to know. When should I call a realtor? When CAN I call a realtor, a lender, or an attorney? What's the right timing to do this whole thing right? In this episode, David Sidoni dives into the best, most efficient, and most money-saving time frames every first-time home buyer should know.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, gang, grab your popcorn. It's time to spill some tea here. In November of 2022, Zillow dropped this bombshell data analysis. |
| 0:11.5 | They told us this. Perspective homebuyers spend about as much time researching new TVs as they do their mortgages. |
| 0:21.9 | Okay, Zillow, I'm listening. |
| 0:37.6 | What is up? How to buy a home? I'm over here. |
| 0:40.6 | What is up? |
| 0:41.8 | My How to buy homies? |
| 0:43.1 | How y'all doing out there? |
| 0:45.2 | It's David Sidoni back again. |
| 0:51.0 | And it's going to be a little fun episode getting into the juicy deeds on this Zillow shocker. |
| 0:55.4 | Now, I know lots of Gen Zsies and millennials out there are sick of the boomers telling you that you're entitled and that you have a got to get it quick attitude. And then, of course, |
| 1:01.3 | this survey comes out and that just stirs that debate even more. Here's the deal. The truth is, |
| 1:07.6 | this is not your fault. The world is changing and things are getting faster and easier |
| 1:12.5 | to master. So let's figure out what is the actual right amount of time that it takes to plan |
| 1:19.1 | instead of just ragging on you and telling you you should spend more time than a TV. |
| 1:23.8 | Where I'm coming from today is no judgments. I'm just looking to help protect you for making a bad |
| 1:28.1 | decision and losing thousands of dollars. So here's the facts and don't shoot the messenger gang. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm just telling you what's actually going on. Here's what we found out. According to this |
| 1:37.8 | survey from Zillow, some of you've been duped into the fact that you think that you can Google |
| 1:42.9 | all this stuff for buying your first home for a |
| 1:45.0 | couple weeks and then you're all set. Now, hear me out. And remember, I'm not judging you. One of the |
| 1:51.1 | big things about this survey is I'm also considering the source of this information. This came from |
| 1:57.0 | the Zillow Home Loan Department. Hmm, wonder why I said that. Well, I know damn well why they |
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