33 – How These Planners Bought Their First Home And Learned Their Plan Wasn’t Enough! – Real Story #3
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Buying a house is a lot easier said than done, even for those who seem to get it all together. In this episode, the How to Buy a Home Guy, David Sidoni, interviews two first-time homebuyers, Alvin and Ashley, to share their actual experience and some first-time buyer nuggets of wisdom. These two young adults from the hoods of LA got their stuff together, made a plan, and bought a $700,000 house. How did they do it? Not without their share of struggles. Thinking they were doing everything right, Alvin and Ashley realized there are way more to tackle than they knew. It wasn’t difficult to DO, it’s just not easy to navigate without a guide. Buying a home takes some planning. Listen to this episode to learn what to expect in the actual process of buying a home.
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| 0:00.0 | So how does a young, hip couple just starting out in life, consisting of a girl from South |
| 0:05.5 | Central Los Angeles and a dude from Snoop Dog's hometown of the LBC, how do they afford a $700,000 |
| 0:13.9 | home in L.A. County? Well, it happened, and you can learn from their journey. Here is their real world story. |
| 0:56.1 | What's happening everybody? How are you? I'm David Sedone, the How to Buy a Home Guy. And if you're catching this when it first comes out, it's time for another holiday miracle. December 2019. And this is your inspirational story that's going to make all those lifetime hallmark movies look like schlock. |
| 0:59.6 | Not like they don't already, but that's another story. |
| 1:02.6 | This is such an inspirational story. |
| 1:07.4 | It's real and it's chock full of incredible nuggets of first-time buyer wisdom. |
| 1:14.2 | I mean, so much real, powerful information. You are going to learn so much from this interview. These guys are amazing individuals. So it comes straight from the horse's mouth |
| 1:21.0 | and this story is totally real. The cool thing is I was the realtor on this one. Those of you |
| 1:27.1 | don't know, I'm a realtor with EXP Realty here in Southern California. |
| 1:30.6 | Myself and my team have been helping people buy and saw houses since 2006, |
| 1:34.1 | so a little over 13 years or 13 years or something. |
| 1:36.8 | And in early 2019, I actually got disgusted with the way that first time |
| 1:41.4 | homebuyers are being ignored and mistreated and probably like |
| 1:45.6 | the most trodden upon sorry I'm in my Christmas vocabulary mode the most trodden upon consumers |
| 1:53.3 | in American consuming it is just not fair so I thought that you guys being ignored and mistreated by most of the industry |
| 2:02.6 | sucked. So rather than quit the business altogether, I created this passion project. It's out |
| 2:07.8 | there to correct all the injustices of the world. Sorry, I got Disney Plus, so I'm watching a lot of |
| 2:12.5 | Marvel. So everything's about injustice. And I wanted to inform you that you have the power. |
| 2:18.4 | You don't realize you, you got an infinity stone right in your hand and don't even know it. |
| 2:24.7 | So here we are at the podcast. |
| 2:27.0 | And this is a real life story of two real life regular people who turned into real life superheroes. |
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