Welcome in. This is a bonus episode of the How to Buy a Home podcast. That's because I was scheduled to do my 2021 housing market forecast. But during the holiday break at the end of 2020, so many of you suddenly had the same question. I decided it's time to answer it. Let's answer that today. What's happening, gang? Welcome to the How to Buy a Home podcast.

I am David Sedoni, the How to Buy a Home Guy.

It's a little bit after New Year's day as I record this.

So happy New Year, everybody.

Happy New Year to my frequent flyers, you regular listeners out there soaking up all the

podcast knowledge.

What's cracking, gang?

And if you're new,

welcome. Feel free to listen up today or you can go to the intro episode. That's the top of the bottom

of the feed. You get the details on how to use this specific podcast to answer your specific

questions. Don't forget to subscribe there. You're going to get all the 2021 forecast,

which will be coming out a little bit later. But as I mentioned at the top, we're putting that

on hold because, well, during the holiday break, the most common thing I heard in the last

two to three weeks, besides, you know, thank God that

2020 is ending, was many first-time buyers asking the question that I have heard many, many,

many times in my 15 years helping first-time home buyers, both here and over the past couple

years all across the country. The big question is timing the

move around the end of a lease. Now, I get it. It seems like a no-brainer. Dude, I still get a few more

things in order. You told me to do all this planning, so I'm doing all that planning. And that

date in June, July, September, October,

that's a perfect date for me to shoot for. So I'm busting my butt to save up for this. So why would

I even contemplate paying to get out of a lease? I'm counting every single dollar. That's the

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