233 - Interview With Stephanie Who Had 200K In Student Loans, And STILL Bought A Home!
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Student loans are always a huge burden to bear, but they must never hinder you from achieving your biggest dreams. Stephanie is living proof of how someone dealing with student loans managed to buy her first-ever home – in just three months! Joining David Sidoni, she looks back on her first-time house purchase in 2022, getting through financial hurdles, anxiety, and a highly competitive market. Stephanie shares how finding the right people for support and holding on to faith proved vital in her home-buying success.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you one of the millions of people out there who owes on the trillions of dollars that Americans owe in student debt? |
| 0:08.2 | Yes, trillions with a T. |
| 0:11.0 | A lot of people think that that's going to be a major deterrent in getting you to stop renting and start owning a home. |
| 0:18.8 | Well, listen to this incredible story. |
| 0:20.8 | This is Stephanie. She has |
| 0:21.8 | $200,000 worth of student debt, and she bought a nice $400,000-thousand-dollar starter home. |
| 0:30.6 | And she pulled it off, even though she was freaked out, tons of anxiety, and was self-proclaimed, quote, not a great manager |
| 0:41.0 | of my own life, unquote. So if you're looking to figure out how to do this and you think |
| 0:47.4 | you're freaking out about it, wait a hear Stephanie's story, which has a wonderful happy ending. |
| 0:53.2 | Play that music. |
| 0:54.0 | Music. Stephanie's story, which has a wonderful happy ending. Play that music. |
| 1:13.1 | Okay, everybody, I'm super excited about this one. Stephanie and I have been trying to get this interview going for a while. And she's here today with her and her dog Loki, who is my favorite. |
| 1:20.9 | I already got a chance to meet Loki. So Stephanie, congratulations, homeowner. |
| 1:26.4 | Thank you. It is very exciting. Well, the cool thing about your |
| 1:30.9 | story is that it was a three-month story. You checked in with us in July, and by August, you |
| 1:36.3 | had an accepted offer. Yeah, that escalated quickly. Yeah, I can tell you why it happened so quickly. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, you and I were communicating throughout the process. |
| 1:49.9 | So actually, let's start with this. |
| 1:52.3 | What was your biggest tip? |
| 1:55.2 | And then we'll go back from the beginning and you can help other people figure out how to get there. |
| 1:59.6 | But within the process, like, |
| 2:01.8 | what do you think the biggest takeaway you have that you would tell people if they go, |
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