163 - Let’s Hear From Another REAL Home Buyer: Amber’s Story
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As first-time home buyers, it’s important to talk to folks who have already gone through the process. David Sidoni knows the value of listening to those who have gone before, which is why he decided to take a break from talking and hand the mic over to How-to-Buy a Homie Amber.
Amber was living in NYC, but when the pandemic hit, she knew it was time to buy her first home. After a lot of number crunching, she finally purchased her first home in the D.C. area. Check out her biggest takeaways and considerations throughout the process.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode, we're going to find out what happens when a single woman who's trying to figure out where she wants to live moves around a little bit and suddenly finds out that the place that she's living currently, the units are going to be going up a1,000 a month at the end of her lease. |
| 0:25.3 | Well, I'll tell you what you do. |
| 0:26.6 | You jump on the How to Buy a Home podcast and figure out how to stop being a renter ASAP. |
| 0:32.9 | Let's hear this story. |
| 0:48.7 | Music hear this story. Hey there, everybody. It is one of our very exciting episodes. It is the interview episode. So with us today, |
| 0:57.3 | we've got Amber. Amber, say hello to all the How to Buy Homies. Hello. So you're sitting in |
| 1:04.0 | your brand new house. We could see, if those of you watching on the video, you can see even the |
| 1:08.3 | pictures aren't even hung up yet. But that's okay. It takes a |
| 1:12.9 | while to move into your house. We're just stoked that she's there. So everybody wants to know, |
| 1:19.0 | you know, what people learn through the process. So Amber, would you give us, you know, |
| 1:23.9 | one of the biggest tips that you learned throughout the process, good or bad? |
| 1:29.3 | Um, I was saying the biggest thing is just doing your research. Um, a couple of things there. |
| 1:35.6 | I feel like a lot of us are just really busy these days and we're trying to get to the point of, |
| 1:39.6 | you know, like I like very like matter of fact kind of information, right? Like just tell me what I need to do so that I can move forward. |
| 1:46.6 | I don't have time to kind of like mingle through a lot of things before I finally figure out what it is that I'm supposed to do. |
| 1:53.1 | So I think finding resources and in your case, this podcast was a very big health to me in that way. I would go on walks in the |
| 2:02.7 | morning and just in that time, listen. And I felt like, you know, the advice that I got and everything |
| 2:07.6 | that I listened to was very, again, straight to the point. It was factual. It was mathematical |
| 2:12.7 | things that are important to me when I'm making decisions, especially ones as big as buying a house. |
| 2:18.7 | So, again, research, you know, figure out what you're getting yourself into because I think |
| 2:24.1 | the biggest thing is that we always have an idea of what we're getting ourselves into. |
| 2:27.8 | And then we actually get into it and we're kind of like thrown off by all of these extra little |
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