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Hey everybody, it's Jean Chatsky. Thank you so much for joining me today for a special mailbag only episode of Her Money. We are going through our inbox. We're

tackling all your questions and we're doing this as a holiday gift as a thank you for tuning into our show

for all the wonderful feedback that you give us through the year and just for

all these fabulous questions.

Catherine and I were looking through this mailbag

and I mean your questions just make me feel so inspired

because you are thinking really carefully about using your resources to get

exactly what you want from your lives and that is so the point don't you agree?

Yep our readers are smart they're savvy they're thinking things through all the

details that go into every single financial decision and it's an honor to get looped into just a small

glimpse of your life in that way. Absolutely that by the way is Catherine Tuggle

her Money.com's editor our our producer, and on today's episode, the way we structured this, we are going

to roll out several of these mailbag specials and we're going to do them by theme.

So today we're going to dive into some of the questions

that you have submitted around home buying and real estate.

One of those things that tends to keep so many of us up at night but these issues also

tend to have easier solutions than we might think.

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