How the Nerds Do It: How a Mortgage Nerd Bought a House

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Buying a house takes grit, know-how — and, frankly, a good amount of cash. In this episode of our “How the Nerds Do It” series, mortgage Nerd Kate Wood talks about how she bought her first home, and why she almost fell for a house with a poisoned well. Kate also gives you her tips for buying a house, including the importance of finding a real estate agent whom you can trust. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.9	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast.
0:37.4	I'm NerdWallet Investing writer Alana Benson.
0:39.7	This episode, we're continuing our series called How the Nerds Do It, where we talk with our
0:43.8	nerds about how they personally tackle the issues they write about every day. This week, we're
0:48.7	talking with Kate Wood, a mortgage nerd who bought a house. She's going to talk us through how she managed
0:53.5	to do it,
0:59.0	some important details non-nerds may not think to look into, and at the end, Kate will share her tips for how you can buy a house in a difficult market. Hey, Kate. Hey. So I think this is
1:04.9	a super interesting topic for a lot of reasons. I mean, the housing market has been crazy for a long time. And we all know
1:12.9	millennials used to get made fun of because none of us were buying houses, but then all of a sudden
1:18.2	we were buying houses. So what made you want to buy a house versus rent? And how did you know that
1:24.8	you were financially ready? I bought in 2020, which at the time,
1:29.6	both, you know, talking to my colleagues at NerdWallet and talking to real estate professionals
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