169 - Woman Power: This Single Woman Bought Her First Home
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today’s How-to-Buy-a-Homie interview is with Joelle, a single woman who bought a house on her own. Accomplishing this feat was no easy task, but hard work and dedication led her to her first house in Florida! Now, she has the keys to her first house instead of relying on the unsteady rent market.
From the finances to the emotional aspect of homeownership, David sits down with Joelle to get all the details about the home buying process.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On Air Brands. |
| 0:04.3 | Here in 2023 is a late Gen Xer who was raised in a middle class area in Southern California, |
| 0:13.1 | existing now as a white man with privilege. |
| 0:16.4 | Living my life as an ally to everybody can sometimes be a challenge because of who I am. And I am |
| 0:23.9 | empathetic to all. I get it. I understand where I'm coming from and I try to make sure that I |
| 0:29.4 | express that when I'm talking to everybody. I really had a good coming up. I don't even have the |
| 0:35.8 | immigrant story, you know, someone who just came here |
| 0:39.5 | and battled and neither did my dad. And that was because he had to go back to my grandfather, |
| 0:44.9 | who was the one who came over from Italy and passed through Ellis Island by the Statue of Liberty |
| 0:50.9 | so many decades ago. So I'm two generations removed from that. So today, |
| 0:57.4 | I humbly present to you something I'm extremely excited and proud about for your education |
| 1:02.8 | and empowerment. This is the story of Joelle, a single woman of color who deftly articulates |
| 1:09.4 | her story of buying a home on her own. Let's listen. |
| 1:31.4 | Okay, everybody, here we go. |
| 1:34.6 | It's another one of your favorite episodes where you don't have to listen to me all the time. |
| 1:39.9 | This is Joelle, and she is a buyer in Florida. |
| 1:41.6 | Joelle, how you doing? |
| 1:43.5 | Good, good. |
| 1:49.2 | You know, enjoying the homeowner life. Hashtag homeowner life. Okay, so we'll get into your story in a minute. Tell everybody your biggest learning |
| 1:55.3 | process, biggest aha moment, most exciting thing, most scary thing. |
| 2:03.5 | Give us a nice tip right off the bat. |
| 2:09.8 | So the biggest aha moment I think I had in my personal home buying journey was just around affordability. |
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