82 - Interview With VA First-Time Home Buyers - How They Bought In BANANAS 2022!
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Buying your first home is a scary venture. It takes a lot of time and planning. You have to do all your homework, look through all the houses, find a Realtor, make a list, save the money. As you can see, being a first-time home buyer can be exhausting. Listen to today's episode as David Sidoni talks to real-life first-time home buyers, Kenneth and Danielle. Learn how they tried to buy on their own, but couldn't make it happen. Then they found this podcast, reached out to David and got connected with a great unicorn Realtor in their area. Also, find out how they used a VA loan to get their first home - even in the bananas bidding war frenzied market of 2022.
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David Sidoni, the "How to Buy a Home Guy," is a seasoned real estate professional and consumer advocate with over 18 years of experience helping first-time homebuyers navigate the real estate market. His podcast, "How to Buy a Home," is a trusted resource for anyone looking to buy their first home. It offers expert advice, actionable tips, and inspiring stories from real first-time homebuyers. With a focus on making the home-buying process accessible and understandable, David breaks down complex topics into easy-to-follow steps, covering everything from budgeting and financing to finding the right home and making an offer.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening how to buy a home? |
| 0:01.6 | Today's one of my favorite kinds of episodes. |
| 0:04.6 | This is a real life story from real life first-time homebuyers, |
| 0:09.2 | a couple who closed on their first home telling us and you how they did it. |
| 0:14.8 | I can't wait, so let's get right into it. |
| 0:16.8 | I don so excited. These are my favorite episodes. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm not messed up last week because they're on the East Coast and I went on the Zoom at the wrong time. |
| 0:42.8 | They're still gracious enough to come back for me. Canne and Danielle, say hi to everybody. Say a |
| 0:47.9 | little to the world. Hey, how to. Hello. Hello. Now, they have a home and they're zooming |
| 0:53.8 | from two different places. So I have to ask home and they're zooming from two different places. |
| 0:55.0 | So I have to ask you, are you zooming in two different rooms or is one of you |
| 0:58.1 | get a job because you have to pay for a mortgage? |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, the latter. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah, so I'm actually a reservist with the Air Force. |
| 1:08.8 | And so I've been flying back and forth between Maryland and Dayton, Ohio, |
| 1:14.6 | where I do my duty at. Are you on your... Almost two years now. Wow. Are you on your two weeks |
| 1:21.7 | active? Because you're a reservist or you're just going back... That's right. You're on your active now. |
| 1:26.1 | Two weeks back. Yeah. So I just did my weekend this past Saturday and Sunday. |
| 1:31.4 | And then this week I'll be here for five days. |
| 1:33.8 | And then I'll travel back home to Maryland where I will hopefully be for the rest of the year |
| 1:40.8 | because we just found some great news where I'll be actually working at one of |
| 1:47.3 | the bases in Maryland now. So looking forward to being at home with my wife and my little more. |
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