704: Ask Farnoosh, I'm sick of paying rent... how can I prepare to buy my first home?
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
I'm tired of paying rent and bad landlords. How can I get ready to buy my first home or apartment in an expensive city?
Can I invest in an index fund or should I wait until my student loans are fully paid off?
My parents get stressed when I ask them about investing. Can you share any advice?
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 704, Ask Farnush with special co-host George Itza. |
| 0:05.8 | You're listening to So Money, with award-winning Money Guru Farnush |
| 0:11.2 | Tarabi. Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial |
| 0:14.8 | inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from |
| 0:19.6 | Farnuus yourself. Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:25.0 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:27.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to So Money everyone. |
| 0:36.0 | March 16th Friday in 2018. |
| 0:39.0 | It's been an interesting week. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Farnish Chirabi by the the way your host. An interesting week because |
| 0:44.3 | okay Sunday was daylight savings and that just screwed my entire week up. I still think it's |
| 0:49.1 | like Tuesday. I'm still waking up late and groggy. My husband and I joke that there's this |
| 0:55.2 | hotel across the street that you know we should just start going there, you know |
| 1:00.3 | trading nights once a once every other night our kids are still awake in the |
| 1:04.6 | middle of the night that's the other layered problem so you know losing an hour of |
| 1:10.0 | sleep plus we lose sleep every night anyway, and how am I even here hosting this |
| 1:15.7 | podcast? A lot of caffeine, that's how. All this to say, I'm so happy it's Friday and |
| 1:21.8 | happy Nauru's to my fellow Persians out there not yet not yet |
| 1:26.1 | it's next week but as we know it's a week long of festivities the weekend is approaching |
| 1:31.6 | and that means lots of parties, lots of Persian shenanigans. |
| 1:36.0 | Fire jumping, some of you might be participating in that, including maybe my co-host today, George Itzok. |
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