167 - Interview: Buying a $300K Home With Only $18k? Yes!
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stick around until the end with this episode! This one is jam-packed with tips, hacks, and a super amazing end that even had David surprised.
Alrighty, with that little tidbit in mind, let’s dive in: Your #1 First-time Home Buyer Advocate, David Sidoni, sits down with How-to-Buy-a-Homies Christina and Sean from New Jersey as they talk about how they DOUBLED their square footage from a small apartment to the home of their dreams. These folks totally rocked the home buying process and you won’t want to miss how they did it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is going to be a little bit different. |
| 0:06.3 | I normally don't do teasers. |
| 0:07.9 | I do not usually say, you have to wait till the end. |
| 0:11.1 | You won't believe what they said. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm not a BuzzFeed scroll. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm not trying to get you to stick around. |
| 0:16.2 | But today I am telling you stick around. |
| 0:18.9 | Now, don't worry about it. |
| 0:19.8 | The middle of this podcast is incredible. |
| 0:22.7 | Filled with information, jam-packed with all kinds of applicable tips and hacks for you. |
| 0:29.4 | I mean, these guys, I'll tease this part right now. |
| 0:32.6 | They doubled their square footage from their apartment, and it only cost them $400 more a month in their |
| 0:38.8 | payment, and only $18,000 total to make the purchase. So I realize it's kind of a long |
| 0:46.9 | episode right here, but I'm telling you, stick around. If you don't have the time to listen |
| 0:49.8 | to everything right now, fine, save it on your phone. Listen to the rest later because I promise you, |
| 0:55.9 | I have an ending to this podcast that I have never had happened in any interview podcast |
| 1:03.7 | in all the interview podcasts that I've done. Stick around for this. Let's go. |
| 1:09.3 | Let's go. |
| 1:27.8 | All right, everybody, I promised you some fun. This is Christina and Sean, and they are in, where are you guys? |
| 1:33.7 | Oh my gosh, I forgot already. |
| 1:35.0 | New Jersey. |
| 1:35.9 | New Jersey. |
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