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Sh*t I wish I knew in residency: Buying a house while in residency #264

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Should you buy a house or rent? It seems like a hard decision to make. Not to me. Here’s my simple advice: RENT! Well, at least during the first couple of years of moving to a new town or starting a new residency. Karl Brisard, a real estate agent with Keller Willams (and Renee’s cuzzo), is on the hot seat to talk about how to buy a house when you’re new to a city. H...

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Chances are the Locum doc you're signing out to is getting paid 33% more than you are.

0:11.0

Throw on top of that, they get to choose when and where they want to work.

0:15.0

Look, I also got to tell you about the built-in tax advantages, medical malpractice, travel, housing, all of this being taken care of.

0:23.2

So that's why for the past four years, I've practiced full-time as a locum doctor.

0:27.6

And you can too. Check out locumstory.com to learn everything you need to know about locum tenants.

0:34.1

Again, visit locumstory.com to see if a locum tenens assignment is right for you.

0:44.3

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What's good, everyone.

1:33.5

This is Dr. Ney.

1:35.3

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Docs Outside the Box.

1:38.7

Let's jump right into it.

1:39.7

So I have been there.

1:41.0

I've done it, obviously, where I graduated medical school. I knew where my residency

1:46.1

was going to be at, but it was in a city that I'd never been to, which is Atlanta. And for you all,

1:52.5

that decision is going to be coming up for you really soon when it's time to graduate and you're going to, you know,

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