191 - What To Do When It All Goes Wrong - HORROR story!
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
When buying your first home, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Sometimes, crap hits the fan and you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Well, David received an email from a How to Buy a Home listener who really went through the ringer during the home buying process because they didn’t have the right team and weren’t properly prepared for the process. David takes this opportunity to illuminate what to do and what NOT to do when buying a home as well as how to handle the situation if it all goes wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | People ask me all the time, David, what do I want to look out for? What are the big things I want to avoid? |
| 0:10.3 | Well, the answer is if you're doing it correctly, there's going to be a bunch of horror stories and a bunch of terrible things that you may not end up ever finding out about. The right team, the right |
| 0:24.0 | guidance, the right unicorns pushing you in the right direction will mean that all those horror |
| 0:28.9 | stories will happen to other people and not to you. Today, I've got a great example of some |
| 0:36.9 | horror stories that can happen if you don't have the right representation and what you can do about it to protect yourself. |
| 0:44.0 | Play that music. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm out of here. What is all my How to Buy Homeys? It's David Sidoni, your How to Buy a Home podcast, advocate, guru, and first-time buyer lover. |
| 1:10.5 | Okay, here's what happened. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm at work today, and I'm doing my thing, getting ready to figure out what I'm going to do next, |
| 1:16.3 | suddenly. |
| 1:17.2 | Boom, this email comes across my desk. |
| 1:20.0 | They came to me from the how to buy a home.com website. |
| 1:23.5 | And, you know, I don't like to do a lot of the what not to do with specific examples. |
| 1:29.9 | Most of the time I'm going to, you know, say, I have seen this in the past. |
| 1:33.0 | I have heard this from other realtors. |
| 1:34.6 | But in this case, this listener's attitude is so awesome after going through such a terrible |
| 1:42.1 | experience that I thought it was great to prove two different |
| 1:45.6 | stories here. Proof, you don't prove stories, to illuminate a couple different great philosophies |
| 1:53.1 | for you guys. Number one is tactically what to specifically do when you're buying a home and what |
| 1:59.5 | not to do. And secondly, how to handle things when you're buying a home and what not to do. |
| 2:05.6 | And secondly, how to handle things if you get punched in the face. |
| 2:09.0 | Because holy Moses, this gal got smacked. |
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