In this foundational episode of the “Ten Basic Steps to Buy a Home” series, David Sidoni challenges conventional wisdom by revealing that Step 1 isn’t about getting pre-approved or finding a realtor – it’s about making the fundamental decision to start planning your homebuying journey. Through real-world examples and myth-busting insights, he demonstrates why deciding to view homebuying as a rent replacement strategy, rather than a new expense, can transform your entire approach to homeownership. This mindset shift, backed by the confidence that comes from understanding the true process, is what sets successful first-time homebuyers apart in 2025’s competitive market.
Quote: “Buying a home is not taking on a new crazy expense… Buying a home is a rent replacement strategy.”
Highlights:
- What if you could start planning your home purchase today at no cost, even if you’re 2-3 years away from buying?
- Could your belief in common myths like needing 20% down or a 700+ credit score be holding you back from starting your homebuying journey?
- Is “waiting for the crash” actually costing you more than taking action now with a solid plan?
- What’s the real reason behind rising home prices in 2025, and how can understanding inventory levels help inform your decision?
- How might converting your monthly rent payment into mortgage payments help build long-term wealth instead of just covering 30 days of living?
- Could working with the right professionals earlier in your journey – way earlier than most people think – give you an advantage in today’s market?
Referenced Episodes:
- Episode 40, 48, 51 – “I Did It” success stories
- Episode 53 – Madison’s condo purchase story
- Episode 151, 162, 168, 192, 219, 225 – Market updates and changes
- Episode 251 – The Last Lease Ever plan
- Episode 274, 299 – JT’s perspective episodes
- Episode 290 – 2025 Forecast and Predictions
- Episode 296 – Market follow-up
- Episode 98 – David’s personal rental story
- Episode 164 – Chutes and Ladders analogy
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HOMEBUYING 101: Deciding Your Goals | STEP 1
Welcome back, homies, to the ten basic steps to buy a home. We’re laying down the foundation for buying a home the right way and educating you to identify the factors that will be unique to you and your own personal home buying process. Time to get into the details with your first step. You ready? Let’s do this.
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What’s happening, my How to Buy a Homie’s? This is Episode 2 of a 10-part series. They’ve got to have it, and must know the ten basic steps for any first-time home buyer. Quick warning, though. This is not designed to sell you a home. This is the first of its kind resource. It’s compiled from hands-on experience from thousands of first-time home buyer transactions, with the goal of these ten episodes to educate and empower you.
Step One: Decide
I’m starting a new revolution to help buyers do this the right way. It’s adulting material brought to you by a self-proclaimed cringy real estate nerd on a mission. Hopefully, you’ll learn something and have a little fun along the way. No time to waste because today is step one. It’s decided. Have you ever met someone with a clear, strong goal? For real, like unshakable determination, because they know exactly what they want to do.
That mindset breeds successful outcomes. We’ve all got ups and downs along the way, but that confidence means you’re going to stay on course. Most people assume that the first step is gathering information. Yes, that’s true. The real first step is a mindset change. That will help you make the right decision for you, whatever that may be. The fear of moving forward is a simple lack of correct information. Understanding the possibilities with confidence that’s the key to your success. The reason I say this is because the myths are wrong.
You don’t need 20% down to buy a home. You don’t need six figures to buy a home. Student loans rarely hold people back as much as people think they do. Also, PMI, not the devil, you can use it to buy a home and get there way sooner than you think you could. In 2025, the biggest myth of all, the affordability of a home doesn’t mean that your mortgage payment is significantly less than your rent. I know everybody, you don’t need an 800 credit score. You don’t even need 700. Really?
You don’t even need 600. A 580 credit score still can mean that you can qualify for a home loan. Here’s the thing that we do on the show. Just because you can buy a home with a 580 credit score, it doesn’t mean that doing that is your best play. If you work a plan with professional guidance, you can improve that score which will eventually mean that when you’re ready to buy, you’re going to get a better interest rate, a better loan program, and a better deal, all because of that higher score.
You want to do that instead of jumping on buying a home just because somebody else told you, “580, sure, come on in, we’ll do it today.” You can do that, but it might not be your best move. The myths out there they make for bad decisions or they make for indecision based on fear. Knowledge reduces fear, and education grows your confidence in your decisions.
Don’t let the lack of correct information and scary myths hold you back, reduce your options, cost you more money, and delay your process to own someday and stop renting. Most importantly, waiting to figure this out, it’s just not going to work for you. It will indeed, when you look back with regret, probably be your biggest mistake. There a tons of more myths out there, but once you get over those and you decide, start your plan. Plans cannot hurt you. You’re not doing anything, you’re just making plans. Now by the way, steps 2 through 10 don’t mean a damn thing if you don’t grasp step one.
Step two, we’re going to get your guides. Step three, we’re going to work on your credit scores. Step four. Taking care of your debt. Step five. Setting up your savings plan. Step six, we’ll be honing in on all your goals. Step seven, we’ll learn all the terms and definitions that you’re going to need to know. Step eight is going to be going deep on how to use online research. Step nine will be practicing the new adulting you’re going to do with that new payment. Step ten is knowing the current market and the correct way to offer, negotiate, and buy a home. We’re going to get through all of them, but this is a process. It’s a plan laid out with sequential steps that you should follow.
For example, look at step ten, the last step of all of these. There you heard negotiating the offer on the home that you want to buy. Now, you cannot get to understanding all of that until you have the strong foundation that you’re going to learn with steps 1 through 9. Now, these are ten steps, and some of the information you need might actually be in the back catalog of 300 episodes, but I’m not saying that you need to consume all 300 before you’re ready to buy. Remember the biggest lesson from the last episode.
Too many people spend too much time over researching, and they end up stalling their own progress for a year or two. Absolutely, I believe that being informed is critical to this process, but you don’t have to do this all on your own. You definitely don’t need to know every single little thing about buying a home before you start your planning. This is the ten basics for 2025. This year, the housing market will see some appreciation. That means the home prices are going up, and it’s all due to one thing. Low inventory. It’s a simple low supply and high demand.
Let’s get educated so we’re not fearful. You see, in this post-pandemic era, many would-be first-time home buyers have been frozen in fear and spent years with what we like to call paralysis by analysis. Meanwhile, they’re still paying their rents, which are continually going up, and they’ve potentially missed out on hundreds of thousands of free profits in home appreciation. Why is this still happening?
It’s because most of the research that people who want to buy a home find online was paid for and created by big mortgage, which is absolutely not looking out for the best interest of a first-time homebuyer. More often than not, it gives people who are just trying to figure out how they get started. It gives them a stop sign, the exact opposite of starting, rather than giving you a roadmap with action steps.
What we’re doing is figuring out the most important thing. It’s called a plan. We’re going to explain how researching the right way and for the right amount of time can greatly improve your entire home-buying process. Now that the preamble is complete, I have to warn you, step one might shock you, but remember, the mission here is to educate and empower you so you do this right. This isn’t presented with some super sexy clickbait.
Home buying might not be right for everybody out there. That’s all good. For some of you, buying a home this year or next year might not be the thing that you can pull off. For most people who jump in and listen to this type of show, I’m pretty damn sure that renting your entire life is not a sound financial decision for you. Let’s start with the most important factor in buying a home. Deciding that this is the right decision for you.
Confidently knowing it’s the time to start planning, no matter how far out you are from getting the keys. Yes. Step one is to decide. Now, everybody listen to this. Maybe you can repeat it back. Buying a home is not taking on a new crazy expense. Did you hear that? Buying a home is not taking on a new crazy expense. Buying a home is not simply looking at your rent versus a mortgage payment and seeing which one is more affordable.
Buying A Home Is A Rent Replacement Strategy
Buying a home is a rent replacement strategy. Simple math, gang. If you’re thinking about purchasing a home in a year or two, understanding that buying a home is a rent replacement strategy that’s the key to building your confidence in the entire process. For most of you, your rent is high, and it’s still going up every year. Every year you keep paying rent, you end up paying tens of thousands of dollars to somebody else that you could be paying yourself.
In several past episodes, I’ve myth-busted several of other misleading information that unfortunately have become just too commonly believed. Step one it’s to decide. You must decide that when you’re buying a home, you’re not adding a crazy new expense. Your mortgage payment is a forced savings account. This helps secure your future. A home mortgage is a fixed payment.
It won’t go up like rent does. Your payment is going into an appreciating asset for you and your family. What you’re doing as a homebuyer is putting the biggest monthly output into something that actually works for you. Instead of that income being used for a 30-day disposable moment in your life, you’re using the biggest expense that you already pay as a renter. Embrace that. This will help you decide. Deciding is about mindset and confidence.
I know that some of you maybe have asked someone else for help, trying to get some advice from people that you respect, or maybe you went to another website, or you talked to maybe somebody in the real estate or the lending profession. I am pretty damn sure I know what many of you were told or I should say likely not told when you didn’t get the entire story of this process. Most of the big real estate industry, both realtors and lenders, a lot of them are designed like cashiers, just someone to take your order and then sell you a home.
The best time for you to buy a home was yesterday.
What if you end up talking to one of them and you’re not ready yet? Maybe you thought rad, but how do I get ready to buy a home since you told me I’m not ready today? How do I know when I actually am ready? Planning and helping people get the guidance to do so, creating a strategy, that is the giant black hole in real estate. The reason for that is because people work in real estate, don’t get paid until you close on the home. As it turns out, big real estate lending has created a system that requires you to figure this all out on your own.
Now, the good realtors and lenders, what I call the unicorns out there. They’re going to help you with the planning, the long-term strategy to get you ready. If you need organization, they’re going to use their expertise to help set that up for you. They’re going to nurture you throughout the entire planning process.
Now here’s where it gets really interesting. This means they’re going to work for you at no charge during the planning and strategy formation while you create a personalized plan that is best suited for you. I’ll get more into how all that works in step two. For step one, deciding might be a new concept for many of you. I mean, even if you’re 2 to 3 years away from buying, what I’m trying to tell you is that if you decide, you can start with the best professionals in the industry.
You’re not going to be bugging them if you call the right people. They’re happy to do this. It’s what they do. You’re not going to pay anything to them until you get the keys. In most cases, the seller is going to cover most, if not all, of the fees that you’re going to get for 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, or 2 years of education. To me, the crazy excuse I hear for people not deciding to start a plan is, “No way, dude, I’m waiting for the crash so I can afford it.”
Doesn’t just sound crazy to me because I know a crash isn’t happening, but I got way into that in the old back episodes, and I don’t have time to explain it all. I got 300 episodes of facts and figures that dispute that. More importantly, the reason that sounds crazy to me is if you’re waiting for a crash, then why aren’t you working on a plan right now to start your budgeting and figure out what you’re going to do for when the bubble bursts so you can really take advantage? Why aren’t you stockpiling money?
Seriously, if you had your eye on a brand new $50,000 car, but you said, “That’s too expensive. What I going to do? I’m going to wait until the end of the year. I’m going to buy it when it’s on a clearance sale because they’re trying to make room for the new 2026 models.” If that was your plan, why wouldn’t you still start an account today? You were trying to buy a car immediately so that when the clearance prices come, you can jump in and get it at that discount price that you’re waiting for.
That always baffles me. Sitting and doing nothing, just waiting for a crash, that’s no plan at all. Now, if you are a doomsday believer and you don’t think that now is a good time to buy for you, fine. Do you still want to buy a home someday? Awesome. Let’s get started on a plan for you today. What’s the worst thing that could happen?
You have an organized budget, control over your credit score and your debt, and you have some savings building. Why not start the plan? By the way, for those of you who are waiting for a crash, I know I said it’s all back there in the 300 episodes, but go ahead and listen to Episode 290. That’s where I dropped all the forecasts from the leading economists. You can listen to 296 for a follow-up to see where the market’s going. Since 2019, I’ve been saying one thing and one thing only is what is going to affect the prices in the housing market.
That’s an extreme lack of inventory. Let’s get crazy. Let’s say the inventory problem got solved this year, which, by the way, it will not. We’re four to seven million homes behind what we need. Let’s say it magically happened. Anyone out there who doesn’t want to rent forever, the best time to decide that you want to start your plan is yesterday so that you can have a strategy in place and be able to have the most options to take advantage, whether that’s tomorrow or 500 tomorrows, because you have a plan in place.
You’re going to be able to react as the market shifts instead of having the market shift. You react by doing a mad scramble with no planning in place. Either way, doomsday or rose colored glasses, deciding to start the plan is your first step. If you need to be nurtured, don’t worry about it. We got you, and nobody here is pressuring you. It’s just planning. I’m just spitting out the information. You can listen. You don’t have to do anything.
You might be pleasantly surprised, though, if you end up talking to the right professionals, that you’re a lot closer than you think. If you discover that there are still some things you need to do, maybe you figure out that you’re quite a ways out and you need some time. Cool. Work with the right team that will nurture you, give you action steps, and give you a strategy along the many months of the path that you need to take.
Now I know that this can sound very simplistic to just decide, but if you need the numbers and the math to dispel the voices in your head, it’s all right there in the old podcast episodes. You have to believe that the best time for you to buy a home was yesterday and understand that going through the data here, you’re not going to feel pressured and you’re definitely not going to feel pressure once you’re informed with the data and you’re no longer letting the negative noise out there affect your thinking.
Let’s get into more of the meat here, step one. Deciding is for all you action people out there. Folks who are sick and tired of not doing anything and feeling like, “God, someone would just tell me what to do, I would just do it.” I’ve got to assume that most of you are people of action because right now you’ve got me in your earbuds. I don’t know if you’re washing dishes, doing laundry, working out, or commuting to work.
The first step is about your confidence in the process. Thankfully, here in 2025, mental health awareness is finally getting some recognition, and that’s a good reason. Know thyself. Have a goal, but you can even have rest periods to give yourself the mental recharge you need. First, most importantly, that goal has to be clear. You have to be fully committed to the belief that what you’re attempting to achieve is in your own best interest.
I do not want you to buy a home because you feel that that’s what you’re supposed to do. I know that some of you maybe aren’t looking into buying a home because you’re fighting family pressure or social pressure, and I totally get that. As long as you understand exactly what you could be missing and you’re not making the decision based on just being counterculture because you feel you’ve been beaten down by all these people trying to get you to do something that you don’t think is easily achievable for you.
Don’t stop yourself from buying a home because you’re sick and tired of people telling you you’re supposed to. Do not try this because “I don’t want to do what I’m supposed to do. It’s my life, my rules. I’m doing it my way.” I get it. I understand that. Keep in mind, while you’re doing it your way, you’re still paying someone else, and you could easily switch that around so you’re paying yourself instead. Truly, one of the things I believe about this is I don’t care. Do it or don’t do it. Make sure you’ve made that decision because on facts. You can decide.
I’ve been doing this show since 2019. It doesn’t matter to me. Whenever you decide, I’m still going to be here. I’ve got tons of homies that reach out and go, “I’ve been listening to you for two years, and the market’s been going up for two years, and I keep watching people make money.” It’s fine. I’ll still be here. Start with your decision and then go after it with a white hot intensity of 50,000 sons and get it done.
Deciding & Believing
That’s what makes this step one different. Now you notice this step one does not include getting pre-approved for a loan, nor picking a realtor or a lender. That’s what everything online is going to tell you is your very first step. The reason I don’t do it is because that’s step two. We’re going to cover all that. Step one, this is something big real estate doesn’t preach. You’re getting a big, fatty insider tip right now. The real step one is researching why you should or you shouldn’t start your plan to buy a home.
Spoiler alert for most of you out there, you should. Step two is to get your team, but get your team way earlier than you think you should. Way earlier than the internet tells you to do. Way earlier than people tell you to do. Way earlier than Google, your big, rich uncle, anybody. The system is rigged, but knowing this information and starting early, that’s how you beat the system. Educate yourself first on the why, and then a support team can guide you on the how. Too many people just start with the how first, and they’re not fully bought in on the why.
The cool thing is, like I said, it’s at no upfront cost to you. The good realtors and lenders are going to help you so much earlier in the process than you think they would. People are overwhelmed with excitement when they find out how much true advice they can get from great people in the industry, way before they’re ready to buy a home. That’s what the best of the best will do for you.
Math is not emotional, but myths and fears are. Take the time to listen to the smart people who do the math.
Remember, the biggest mistake that I’ve seen in almost two decades of helping first-time home buyers is that too many people wait to start their research. They don’t start early enough when they could have done what they eventually want to do anyway, but they could have gotten that whole plan started much sooner. If you eventually do want to do this, and I assume you do, because why else would you be sitting there listening to me? Here you are listening to a podcast from a middle-aged real estate nerd, and there are absolutely no true crime stories unless you count Law and Order or Sweeney Todd.
For you, you could start your plan, regardless. You’re going to be in a better position to buy whenever that is for you. The longer that you wait, the less options you’re going to have and the worse deal you’re going to get. Decide, that’s all. Decide you want to start. Not to go out and try to buy a home next weekend, but just to start planning so when you are ready to buy someday, you’ll know what’s right for you and you’ll have all the options. If you have no clue where you’re supposed to start, guess what, gang, you’re exactly why I started this show.
After talking to so many first-time home buyers online, people who reached out to me, talking to a focus group, I learned the one giant thing that I can do to help you most is to give you a solid, long-term plan. Now, if you’re looking for that, it’s called the last lease ever. I’m going to get into the details later on in this ten-part series.
Let’s get you started. Here are the basics. Find out the average price of the home that you’re looking for in the area that you want to buy. The average price. Later on, after you’ve done step two, you can connect with the right realtor and the right lender. For now, you can go ahead and do this on your own if you want to. The way you do that is you find the homes you like and you look at the recently sold homes. Do not look at list prices.
Do not look at what they’re asking for a home. List prices are garbage in most markets, and especially in the 2025 market. Make sure you’re only looking at the sold home prices. Now, once you’ve got some data on the sold prices, and you’ve got, “I like $400,000, I think it’s going to be what I’m shooting for.” Great, now some math, 8% of the purchase price. That’s what you’re saving for. Now, is everybody out there going to need 8%? Absolutely not. That 8% is based on a 5% down payment.
Now again, there are down payments of 3.5% or 3%, and 0%. I’m just creating a simple number for you to get started with. Five percent down payment, and then we’ll do 3% for closing costs. Take your purchase price number and take 8% of that. That’s a number you can start to shoot for for your savings. Again, what’s the worst that happened? If you’d use a lower down payment? “Terrible, you have extra money.” It’s a great place to start, and you can budget, make a spreadsheet, and do everything you want to do.
We’ll get more into that with the ten steps to help you make sure that you’re following your last lease ever plan. Again, I say before you do all that, before you’re going to actually do that with some vigor, with some confidence, you have to know and decide that this makes sense for you. That’s why decide is step one. Now deciding also comes with the bonus step one A, believe.
JT, my producer, he’s been with me since the beginning, 2019. He hated that I said believed so much. I got crazy into Ted Lasso, which was at the beginning of the show. All I would do is talk about, “This is great. You’ve got to believe like Ted Lasso.” For five years, he was listening to that and he hated that. I’ll even tell you, if you’re one of those people who’s not down with that and you’re like, “Shut up with the fluff.” Cool.
Go listen to JT’s episode. He stole the podcast from me. Listen to Episodes 274 and 299 that he did just recently. It’s a great way to hear how he got to embrace my philosophy without embracing all of my cheese. I will tell you in order to move forward, it is helpful if you believe in this and get rid of all the bad myths in your head. Believe, and then you can decide. Ted Lasso style. Sorry, JT. I say this because I’ve done it and I’ve seen it happen so many times.
The Math Myth-Busting Moment – Replace Fear With Facts
For many people, it’s not as difficult as they think coming into it. Learn the real process and the real math so you can believe. It doesn’t matter if you’re renting for $7.50 a month and you only have $1,000 in savings, or if you’re renting for $4,200 a month and you got $150,000 saved. The myths, they’re giving you bad information, preying on your emotions. The thing I love about this is, math is not emotional, but myths and fears are. If you go back to Episode 164, it talks about all of this with the shoots and ladders playing board analogy.
If you don’t decide that you want to go up the board, then you’re just staying on the same square, and you’re losing money every single day. Worse, you might take a step because you’re not really sure what you want to do, and hit a shot and fall further back on the board. The math to do all this? It comes to you straight from my own pathetic 1990s rental story. I lost so much money in my twenties that I could have gained simply by converting the money I was spending, I lost so much money in my 20s that I could have so simply converted it into making money for me, doing what I was already doing anyway, just paying rent.
Episode 98 is my story, and it’s filled with tons of mistakes that you can learn from. Once you do, you’ll probably believe that you’re doing the right thing for you, even though I didn’t. Believing helps you decide. Homies have used my story to help them not make mistakes that I made, and now they’re sitting on a huge pile of equity. That’s the profit that you make in your home. In fact, way back at the beginning of the show, my girl Madison from Episode 53 she bought a $425,000 condo.
She happened to be in my area, so I helped her out, and I love Madison. She fought me the whole way until I gave her the math. She’s not a fluff person. It took the math to help her understand. Now that $425,000 condo she bought way back when, it wasn’t way back when, it was what, 3 or 4 years ago? It’s worth $225,000 more. $650,000 today. She’s got $225,000 of basically free money to her.
Now, yeah, she did put some money into it, but guess what? It was only a 3.5% down payment on $425,000. She had that money already. It was sitting in a savings account. What she did was she transferred it from the savings account into a condo and then started paying a mortgage that was very similar to her rent. It’s not rocket science, but that’s okay because I’m not selling a get-rich-quick scheme. This is your place to get the free education to help you understand all the math of waiting versus buying.
You can go all the way back to Madison’s Episode 53, or you can go back to the thing. I did it in Episode 40, Episode 48, and Episode 51. There’s even more as the market moved and things continue to change in Episodes 151, 162, 168, 192, 219, and 225. You can just start at Episode 251. That’s the last lease ever. You can binge from 251 all the way up to 300 to get all caught up with the current market happenings. Everything you need to know, the facts, the data, and the numbers to help you believe.
If you’re watching the market to see what’s going to happen, there’s the 2025 Forecast and Predictions Episode 290, and I do those every single year. If you want to check my track record, you can go back and see that the things that we’ve predicted are pretty much where things go. Not because I’m a genius, but because I take the time to listen to all the smart people who do the math. I’m just regurgitating what smarter people than me are predicting, as well as using the expertise I have to help first-time home buyers find the most advantageous way to get into the market.
If you’re not decided and you don’t believe, then yeah, you can and you should take some time. Listen to the homework episodes. JT will put them in the notes for you. Understand the history of the market and understand the math of Renting vs Buying. If there’s another topic that I didn’t mention or is not in those episodes, there are 300 titles back there. There are over 70 interviews of real-life people just like you.
Homies gave their stories, and those stories have inspired so many other homies because you not only get the tips and the tools, the real-life situations of how they looked for homes, wrote offers, figured out how to get a loan. Everything that you have questions about. You can hear how real-life people did it. You’re also going to understand what it was that helped them get past the fear. It’s up to you how you want to proceed. If you have an immediate question, go to HowToBuyAHome.com, and you know what? There’s an Ask David button. Fire away. Ask me a question, and I’ll answer it for you. Now, you’re on your way.
Step two is up next, and it’s going to help you pick the right local expert team to be your trusted advocates and help you through this process. You see, homies, for most of you out there, buying a home, it’s not a question of if or how. It’s just when and what do we do to get there? With the right education and information, it’s probably a lot sooner than you think, because, homies, you can do this.
Important Links
- Episode 40, Episode 48, Episode 51 – “I Did It” success stories
- Episode 53 – Madison’s condo purchase story
- Episodes 151, 162, 168, 192, 219, 225 – Market updates and changes
- Episode 251 – The Last Lease Ever plan
- Episode 274, 299 – JT’s perspective episodes
- Episode 290 – 2025 Forecast and Predictions
- Episode 296 – Market follow-up
- Episode 98 – David’s personal rental story
- Episode 164 – Chutes and Ladders analogy
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