86 - The Biggest Mistake For First Time Homebuyers
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What’s the biggest mistake for first-time home buyers? All the episodes can help you avoid the pitfalls, but if you listen to ANY podcast in 2022, make it this one. The biggest mistake that first-time home buyers could be making this year is waiting to listen to every episode before making a move. David Sidoni urges you to start your plan NOW. If you don't compromise and get yourself into the game, that means you’ll keep dragging your feet. Whenever you are ready to pull the trigger, having your ducks in a row will keep you out of hot water.
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| 0:00.0 | Waiting, watching, looking for the best time to buy a house. Rents are out of control and if you've |
| 0:06.5 | listened to other podcasts episodes, you know that the math of playing the waiting game, |
| 0:11.1 | sometimes it doesn't work in your favor. But it's easy to feel confident that you're not making |
| 0:14.9 | a mistake when everyone around you is telling you that buying a home right now, it's a good idea. So how do you avoid that |
| 0:24.3 | mistake today when it seems like every headline is telling you that this is an insane market |
| 0:30.2 | and setting all the buyers up for a big fall? Let's get into it. |
| 0:49.7 | Music Let's get into it. What is up, my how to buy a homies? |
| 0:51.6 | Today we want to talk about the big mistake. Let's call it the |
| 0:56.2 | biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to buying a home. I've been doing this for 16 |
| 1:01.2 | years. So what's my secret? What's the biggest mistake that I know? Well, I know this about the biggest |
| 1:06.9 | mistake. It's not your fault. It's not even your realtor's fault. It's not your |
| 1:11.6 | lender's fault. It's my fault. And it's the real estate industry's fault. And it's our education |
| 1:17.6 | system's fault. Yeah. Nobody freaking told you. Nobody explained the math of renting versus |
| 1:24.3 | buying, at least not in a big manner big enough to make sure that everybody got this information. |
| 1:29.3 | Nobody cared to tell you because the landlords |
| 1:32.3 | needed their rent and the realtors were only focused |
| 1:35.3 | on selling homes. |
| 1:37.1 | And your parents were told to be scared |
| 1:38.8 | of the big investment of buying. |
| 1:40.5 | So they made sure that everyone was really, really careful |
| 1:43.9 | before they jumped into that serious |
| 1:46.1 | of a decision. Yeah, adulting was adulting back then. They just didn't call it that. And so we |
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