You're listening to a beautiful mess podcast. Today we're chatting about

Forever Homes and our current journeys to find the one. Also we're talking about

guilty pleasures and Emmaas is pretty embarrassing.

Okay so we thought we would start off this episode about Forever Homes

sharing a little bit about our background with our various different

starter homes.

So we were both raised in Missouri,

which has its own cultural norms.

If you've ever seen the Instagram account,

cheap old houses, which is one of our favorites favorites that's kind of how Missouri is

it's possible to get a house even for 50,000 dollars that's livable it might not be like

big and nice but it's livable. It might not be like big and nice, but it's livable and you know functioning.

So that is something that is unique about Missouri that we know a lot of places in the country don't have.

Yeah, when Elsie, when you were like, let's talk about Forever Homes and Home

Innovation and all that stuff.

I was like, we have to start off by telling people what it's like buying a home in Springfield, Missouri where we're both from and where I still live.

Because I just think if you don't, like really if you're listening to this, probably you should just hop off unless you're in the car and like get on Zillow and look up Springfield, Missouri because I think just it's a unique place other places are like it too but just if you're from like Phoenix or Los Angeles

then you might be a little bit shocked it's definitely like cheap old houses

Instagram I live in that Instagram so it's one of my favorites I actually had to

unfollow it for a while because I liked it too much, but then I followed it again.

Yeah, because I couldn't stay away. Yeah, it's definitely my number one favorite Instagram.

My first house was $55,000, which is crazy.

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