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Radical Personal Finance

318-How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage: Advice from Casey Fleming, Author of "The Loan Guide"

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

For most people, housing decisions are the largest financial decisions that they will make. And the mortgages usually associated with housing are the largest debts most of us will take on.

And yet how much time and energy do we actually invest into researching these decisions? 

For most of us, the answer is not much.

My guest today is Casey Fleming and he's here to help us navigate the waters of the mortgage market with some clear, up-front advice.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on Radical Personal Finance, we tackle the subject of mortgages.

0:05.1

For many of us, our housing decisions will be some of the biggest financial transactions

0:10.6

in our lives, and the cost associated with those housing decisions will be dramatically affected by our mortgage decisions.

0:20.0

So I want to equip you with some ideas and tools and tactics and information on how to get the best possible mortgage.

0:29.0

Convenently enough, speaking to Casey Fleming, who's the author of a book called The Loan Guide,

0:34.8

How to Get the radical personal findings. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast, your Personal Finance Podcast,

0:56.0

your Personal Finance Podcast dedicated to helping you figure out how to live a rich life today

1:02.0

while building and destroying in the positive

1:06.2

you know modern like hey I'm crushing it since.

1:09.4

Destroying the path to financial freedom in 10 years or less my name is Joshua Sheets. I'm your host, your guide, and your fellow journeymen on this path. I don't know about you but you know when I first got my first mortgage I only

1:30.9

ever had one so far in my life and I don't have it anymore but when I first got my first mortgage I thought I was pretty smart.

1:37.0

I thought I had you know I thought I knew what I was doing because after all I was just going to go out and get a 30-year mortgage at a fixed rate interest, right?

1:44.5

So it's simple.

1:45.2

And I considered getting a 15-year mortgage or a 30-year mortgage, and I decided to get a 30-year

1:49.2

mortgage.

1:50.2

I knew that you should never do anything except get a fixed-rate mortgage. I knew that you should never do anything except get a fixed rate mortgage. I knew that you

1:54.7

should only get a 15 or 30 year mortgage and I didn't want a 15 I got a 30 and I

1:59.7

knew that you should put at least 20% down. I knew that I was making the right decisions.

2:06.5

In retrospect, I tell you what I don't think I knew nearly what I what I wish I had known. And in hindsight I wish I had done some more study

2:15.6

and preparation for that decision now I've tried to make up for lost time and mend

2:20.1

the error of my ways with some additional study and today's show is part of that.

2:24.2

My guest is Casey Fleming, who is the author of The Loan Guide, How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage,

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