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Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast where we answer your personal finance questions and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.

I'm Liz Weston.

And I'm Sean Piles.

To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text us on the Nerd Hotline at 901-730-6373.

That's 901-730 Nerd.

Or email us at podcast at NerdWallet.com. Hit that subscribe button to get new

episodes delivered to your devices every Monday. One last plug before we start the episode. We want

your feedback. We want to hear from you, dear listeners. So we put together a super quick two-question

survey. You can find the link to the survey in the episode description, so please take all of 30 seconds to fill it out.

We're always working to improve the show for you, so this is your chance to help us.

All right, on to the episode.

This time around, Liz and I answer a couple listener questions about buying different home types.

First, though, in our this week in your money segment, we're talking about scams targeting

would-be pet parents with one of our go-to nerds, Bev O'Shea.

Hey, Bev, welcome back to the podcast.

Thanks, Liz.

Happy to be here.

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