193 - Interview - Travel or Buy Your First Home? 4 Years Later, He Did BOTH!
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Should every 26-year-old with a decent job buy a home instead of renting? You’ll be shocked at the answer: IT DEPENDS. In this episode, David sits down with Carl, a guy who loved renting… until he saw the numbers. Now, this amazing homeowner convert is talking about his four-year home-buying journey from Las Vegas. Check out his amazing tale.
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| 0:00.0 | Should every 26-year-old with a decent job be buying a home instead of renting? |
| 0:09.5 | Guess what? You're never going to believe the answer I give you. It depends. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, I know a lot of realtors and lenders are going to try to make sure that you hear, |
| 0:18.4 | don't waste your money, buy a home as soon as you can. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, things have changed. |
| 0:22.7 | The world is different. |
| 0:23.9 | And in this interview with Carl, yeah, that Carl, if you're a homie, I talked about this dude |
| 0:30.2 | in like the first few episodes. |
| 0:33.0 | We're going to get to talk to Carl who just closed on a home in 2023. |
| 0:38.5 | So, yeah, sometimes it's a four or five year journey, |
| 0:41.7 | and that's the best choice for this particular first-time home buyer. |
| 0:46.9 | Play that music. |
| 0:47.8 | Music. All right. Now, if you are one of those crazy people who's listened to every episode I have, I have like over 190. Some of you might remember way back when, |
| 1:14.4 | when I was in my living room in the middle of the night and I talked about my friend Carl. |
| 1:19.7 | Carl and I, he's a local dude. And we met, we went to my favorite place in the whole world |
| 1:26.7 | claim jumper. And I'll never forget, |
| 1:30.0 | Carl was like, dude, I don't want to deal with fixing stuff. I love my landlord fixing everything. |
| 1:37.8 | So I laid out some of the numbers for him, and he went, okay, and we started looking around, |
| 1:44.8 | and then fast forward, what, Carl, what year was that? |
| 1:48.2 | Was that 2019, 2020? |
| 1:50.2 | It was pre-pandemic. |
| 1:52.3 | Yeah, that was actually, I actually looked it up just for this instance. |
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