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The Lo Life

How to Buy a Home When It Feels Impossible: The Homebuyer Playbook

The Lo Life

Podcast Nation

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Lo is joined by real estate strategist Scott Harris, whose decades of experience and new boutique approach to brokerage reshapes how buying and selling should feel. Scott, having brokered nearly $2 billion in NYC properties and recently founding Magnetic, unpacks the biggest mistakes buyers make today, how to reframe beliefs like “I’ll never own a home,” and the four-step “Magnetic Method” (Activate → Align → Amplify → Attract) he uses to help clients land properties they truly love.

Scott shares the most misunderstood step in his method and digs into why so many people get stuck there. He walks through a “mission impossible” transaction from his NYC career and reveals the pivot that made it happen. The conversation also explores how to balance your dream home wishlist with what’s realistic, and why sometimes a “starter home” is the smarter move. For women or people buying solo, he highlights unique negotiation, financing, and mindset hurdles and how to coach past them.

You’ll also learn the invisible costs most buyers forget (maintenance, taxes, inflation, HOA, renovations), and discover what gives one buyer the edge in an offer war that isn’t just about money. In closing, Scott offers concrete steps listeners can take 6–12 months ahead of a purchase to set themselves up for success.

Whether you feel like the market is stacked against you or you’re just curious how to bring more intention into your home search, this is a guide for confident, heart-forward real estate — not just transactions.


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We keep it moving, yeah, we're

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We keep it moving, yeah, we're

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We keep it moving, yeah, we're

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We keep it moving, yeah, we're doing.

0:10.3

Hello, bienvenitos.

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Bonjourno, my gente.

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Welcome one and all to a brand, spanking new episode.

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Fresh out the kitchen, we've been cooking in la Cucina,

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a delicious, spicy new episode of the low-life

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podcast ready for you to sink your teeth into. I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed,

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white wine drinking, tucky finger licking, ice coffee sipping, mushroom microdosen, hot mess of a host,

0:36.2

Lorenzo Bon Rump.

0:38.9

And I'm so happy to be here with you today.

0:41.2

I hope you're having a beautiful day and a great week so far, and you're feeling good right now.

0:45.7

But if you were listening to this right now, struggling, if you feel like shit, if you're

0:51.0

not the best version of yourself right now, if you're feeling overwhelmed,

0:55.0

depressed, super anxious and stressed out, first off, please know that you are not alone in those

1:01.7

feelings. I felt like that many times. There are many days I wake up, white knuckling it, just trying to

1:07.1

get through the day. And I know so many people right now are actually struggling with

1:11.5

their mental health. And so if you're in that boat, please know you are not alone. And also know

1:17.3

that the fact that you're here right now, choosing to do something for you, filling your own tank,

1:23.0

this podcast is great for your mental health. You're going to get something from this conversation.

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