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Life Kit

Mortgage Secrets That Will Save You Money

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to imagine a more boring (and dreaded) word than "mortgage." But if you know where to look, you might find a mortgage that will save you thousands of dollars a year or discover that you qualify for a loan when you didn't think you could.

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0:00.0

I can't think of a drier word than mortgages.

0:03.6

I mean, it just sounds like paperwork and, ah, mortgages really is that what we're going

0:07.8

to talk about?

0:09.7

But what a mortgage can lead to, if you spend some time finding the right one, is actually

0:15.4

really exciting.

0:17.3

And that moment, when we pulled up to the house, I pretended that it was a girlfriend of

0:22.4

mine, um, house, and I just needed to come pick up some items.

0:26.0

Deatred Douglas had just bought this house, but it was touch and go, and so she didn't

0:30.6

tell her kids.

0:32.1

And just played it off like, oh my goodness, she's not here.

0:35.5

Oh, I forgot she left me to keep.

0:37.5

And so I was like, let's just go in.

0:39.0

You guys can come in with me.

0:41.4

And they were just like, who's house is this?

0:48.2

Then they saw the banner that Deatred put up over the fireplace, welcoming them home to

0:52.5

their new house.

0:53.5

Deatred was taping this on her cell phone.

0:55.5

And that's the moment they just lost it.

1:02.5

It's actually really touching her older daughter in the video starts crying, she's standing

1:12.7

in her new room.

1:13.7

And this moment is brought to you by a mortgage.

1:34.8

And actually Deatred was able to buy this house because she found a kind of loan that most

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