Girls Night #171: How to buy your first home: An intimidation-free guide with Cindy Easley

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night! So, I was at an event recently when someone asked me what Girls Night is all about. I told them that here on the show we talk about anything and everything that you’d actually talk about with your real life best friends at a real life girls night. That pretty much covers it, right?  Well, one of the things my friends and I spend a lot of time talking about is where we’ll live. Where we live is a big deal — our homes are where our lives happen. Our cities are where our people are. And so making decisions about where we want to be located and what kind of house we want to live in — those are really important things to talk about!  And because so much rides on this decision from finances to family to lifestyle, I’m so glad we had our friends to help us walk through it. As many of you know, one of my closest friends here in Nashville is Hanna Seymour. Hanna’s been on Girls Night a bunch of times, and she’s actually the one who connected us with her amazing Realtor, Cindy Easley — who also happens to be Hanna’s mom.  Cindy has walked Carl and I through the process of buying and selling our home a few times now, and I am SO grateful for her. Buying a home can feel really scary, but it’s been so much easier and less intimidating to have my friends, and one of friends’ amazing mom to walk me through it. And that’s why I cannot wait to share today’s episode with you! We’re talking about how to buy a home for the first time and how to make it less intimidating!  In this episode Cindy is going to teach us… How to figure out if we’re personally ready to buy a home and what to consider when starting that process How to figure out the financial part of buying a home — she’ll walk us through things like down payments, mortgages, credit scores, and loans. How to find a real estate agent and lender that you trust  How to figure out your must-haves for a home – what’s realistic and where we might need to compromise a little And so much more!  Friends, if you’re trying to figure out your living situation right now, this episode is for you. I can’t wait for you to meet Cindy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices