243 - EVEN MORE Listener Questions ANSWERED: How to Buy Your First Home Pt 3
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
PART 3! Fearing a market crash or bidding war? Discover the secrets to successfully navigating today's real estate market, from avoiding builder scams, choosing the right realtor, and more! David Sidoni answers listener questions in this three-part series.
Episode Highlights:
- Will home prices crash so I can finally afford a home?
- What can I do to get ready if I'm not ready to buy for like a year or so?
- Do I even need a realtor?
- Can I just use any realtor to get me into homes? All the information is online.
- Which is better, a new home or a resale?
- What if I don't want to deal with the bidding wars? How do I avoid them?
- How am I protected? Can I get out of a contract without losing my money?
- What if I find out a home is really a money pit, or a lemon, or a terrible investment?
- Is it best to buy a cheaper investment property first if I can't afford a home where I live?
- What are all these house hacks that I'm hearing about?
- Bonus: Discover the potential of ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) as a house hack strategy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now, when it comes to new builds, let me leave you with this one giant warning. |
| 0:04.6 | There is a huge scam. |
| 0:05.8 | Never, never, never, never, sign in with your real name when you're looking at homes in person. |
| 0:10.6 | If you do, you give up your right to a buyer's agent representation. |
| 0:14.9 | And then you must use the builder's real estate agent and take one guess what they're really trying to do. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome into the show, homies. What's your biggest fear about buying your first home? |
| 0:27.3 | Buying a lemon? What about inspection nightmares? Or buying wrong? And then you end up owning a money |
| 0:33.8 | pit. What about this one? You finally buy and then the market crashes. Or are you scared |
| 0:37.9 | you don't have enough money to win in a bidding war? So you're never going to get a home and you're |
| 0:43.0 | going to have to end up renting forever. I understand a lot of people out there have a lot of fears |
| 0:47.2 | and that leads to a lot of questions. So what we'll do is we'll answer those questions today |
| 0:51.7 | and a whole lot more in today's part three of the listener |
| 0:54.9 | questions answered. Let's go. Welcome in, homies. I am your host of the How to Buy a Home podcast, David Sidoni, |
| 1:15.5 | proudly helping the homies since 2019 to get educated and learn the insider tips of buying your first |
| 1:21.4 | home. If you're brand new, you're not a homie yet. Welcome in. Feel the vibe in your earholes. |
| 1:25.8 | If you like what you're here, hit that subscribe, |
| 1:28.2 | and after this episode, you can go to episode 201, where you're going to get the 10 basic |
| 1:32.7 | steps in 10 episodes for everyone starting their first-time homebuyer journey. And then you can |
| 1:38.0 | scan through the titles and cruise through the rest of the library to pick up specific |
| 1:41.8 | info you need. And speaking of specific, today is part |
| 1:45.6 | three of my listener question answered series. Not the greatest title in the world, but it's specific. |
| 1:52.7 | It tells you what we're going to do. I'm going to give you the answers to the exact questions |
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