179 - FREE 1st Time Home Buyer Money - Too Good to be True?
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Is there free money out there to help first time home buyers with their down payments? Um, YES. You just have to know where to look. So, stop looking at the clickbait-y headlines and listen to David Sidoni because he’s going to tell you all about it.
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David Sidoni, the "How to Buy a Home Guy," is a seasoned real estate professional and consumer advocate with over 18 years of experience helping first-time homebuyers navigate the real estate market. His podcast, "How to Buy a Home," is a trusted resource for anyone looking to buy their first home. It offers expert advice, actionable tips, and inspiring stories from real first-time homebuyers. With a focus on making the home-buying process accessible and understandable, David breaks down complex topics into easy-to-follow steps, covering everything from budgeting and financing to finding the right home and making an offer.
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Resources
https://smartasset.com/taxes/first-time-homebuyer-tax-credit
https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/hud_no_22_070
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, are their first-time homebuyer down payment assistance programs? |
| 0:09.2 | Yes, you know me, Captain Positive, Vaughn Optimistic. |
| 0:14.2 | These are exciting, and I'd love to tell you all about them, but I've got to tell you, |
| 0:18.0 | some of you people out there are driving me crazy. |
| 0:20.8 | Every new clickbait headline about free money that comes up, and you start going to my |
| 0:26.8 | website and emailing me like crazy. Can some of these work for you out there? Sure. But there are |
| 0:33.2 | plenty of better options than the stuff that the news media picks up on. You just got to put in the work. |
| 0:38.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:00.5 | What is up? My How to Buy a Homies? I am David Sidoni helping first-time homebuyers through the headlines for over 17 years. And yes, here on the podcast since 2019, giving you all |
| 1:07.3 | the hacks of the tips and the tricks that I have learned along the way so that you and I can start a real estate revolution, |
| 1:14.6 | get you the proper service and expertise that you deserve from an industry that doesn't seem to want to do that for you. |
| 1:21.1 | Now, those of you at home listening to me in your ear holes, |
| 1:24.0 | you don't get to see the awesome lounge singer act I have going on. |
| 1:27.6 | I broke my microphone right before I started recording. |
| 1:30.9 | See, here's the arm if you're watching online, and this is me holding the microphone, |
| 1:35.3 | like I'm a cheesy lounge singer, and I love it. |
| 1:37.9 | Okay, gang, this week something amazing happened in the media, and the info is just dead dead ass wrong. The media is usually behind with |
| 1:47.8 | anything really good. So they just end up reporting whatever they think. Bottom line is |
| 1:52.8 | they're old. Drink. Old school homies know why they're drinking. The media is boomer ridden. |
| 1:59.0 | And so when they try to talk about things in what the kids think, |
| 2:03.9 | they sound like your creepy bald-headed and beer-bellied older uncle, |
| 2:08.1 | trying to be all cool at the teenage table that's hanging out at the wedding. |
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