How on earth are you supposed to buy a home with mountains of student loan debt?

Is there any way to buy when you're saddled with that huge monkey on your back?

Well, today you're going to get the answers and they might surprise you.

We're also going to unravel the mystery of the very enticing physicians loan.

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All right, everybody, it's your favorite type of podcast, the one where other people talk instead of me.

I say that every time, but I have been hearing a lot from you guys that you love hearing from the podcast listeners. I should figure this out.

So John reached out to me last year,

and now John and Richard have a house. Yay! Woo! How are you guys doing? Oh, man, we're doing

great. Busy. Yeah, very busy. Busy. Now, are you in the home right now?

We are. Yeah. Congratulations are yeah congratulations living in our basement

are you refinishing while you're doing things yeah we we lucked out we found a house with a mostly

finished basement so we were able to kind of move into the basement and while we redo a lot of the upstairs.

You are either my second, at least my second, if not my third or fourth, interview, not just people, you know, the hundreds of people who have done it, but interview who did that as, you know, it's not a full house hack, but I call it a house hack because people

look upstairs and go, ew, gross, what am I going to do? And so there you go. Okay, what's your,

we always start with the biggest tip because nobody cares about your story until they get the reason

they came here in the first place.

So what's your biggest tip to give people?

Although you already gave a great one, the basement house hack.

So do you have any other things that were really instrumental along the process for you?

You know, for me, at least for my half of this, I guess, it was really our lender. Our lender was such a huge, huge part of everything from first and foremost making us realize that, oh, we can afford

to do this and just kind of setting up a plan and just like making

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