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  • The Millennial Homeowner

  • A Guide to Successfully Navigating Your First Home Purchase
  • By: Lauren Bowling
  • Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin
  • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (79 ratings)

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The Millennial Homeowner

By: Lauren Bowling
Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin
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Publisher's summary

In her debut book, The Millennial Homeowner, personal finance blogger Lauren Bowling provides a wealth of home-buying tips and money-management lessons to help millennials redefine their relationship with money. Written in Lauren's warm, funny, and easy-to-understand voice, this audiobook helps millennial home-buyers financially prepare for the biggest purchase of their lifetime.

By breaking down complex financial concepts into clear, manageable tools, Lauren has written the ultimate resource to help millennials navigate the overwhelming process of purchasing and maintaining their first home.

Inside The Millennial Homeowner, you will learn:

  • How to financially prepare for home-ownership
  • Practical tips to begin searching for your first home
  • How to determine affordability and avoid overspending
  • Specific items to look for during a home inspection
  • What to expect when you're under contract
  • Creative ideas to renovate and add value to your home
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Incredibly insightful

I definitely feel more repaired to begin my homeowning journey after reading this book. I would certainly recommend it to friends and family.

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Factual, friendly advice that is to the point

Helpful advice without too much meandering of story telling so it was to the point! I recommend it.

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Candid advice!

I can see myself falling into the same traps but now I will be prepared for them. Probably saved me a lot of headaches. Thank you!

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A very good, short listen

This book is short but gives a very good account of someone’s personal journey as a homebuyer. What I liked the most is that the author’s journey is recent and relatable. The fact that her home-buying process was relatively new when she wrote the book makes the book feel realistic and authentic. This is not an in-depth discussion of the steps to take to buy a home rather it’s a what-to-expect type of account as a single, millennial homebuyer. This book is useful to those of us who do not have anyone to guide us through the home buying process.

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Great information & narration

Easy to listen to, great points and advice. Perfect length to keep me engaged!! So easy to finish in one day! Just what i needed.

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Perfect for first time home buyers!

It’s an easy listen with great information! I would definitely recommend for any home buyer!

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Would recommend

I really enjoyed this book. Great information and advice. And all the steps needed to know for first time home buyers!

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Basic book with a trendy catchphrase to stand out

I had to return this book to audible to receive my credit back for something else. In the preview, she lures you in with how she closed on her home with a small amount of money and says “More on that later...” then, at the later, she legit just says she googled “down payment assistance”. THAT was the big climax.

This book provides basic 1-2-3 brochure-type information to those who know absolutely nothing about purchasing a house but provides no real depth into researching and the types of loans, acceptable credit to get a decent or amazing mortgage or what you should do to get there, what happened AFTER she googled “down payment assistance” and the steps she took and/or mistook to help figure out that process and more of the good, the bad and ugly of the road to getting the keys.

The author has an “I’m better than you” tone to her voice throughout the book, and the fact that she uses the term “millennial” in her book title, targeting that specific audience often stereotyped as being stupid, only annoyed me even more at how useless most of the book was for an actual potential millennial homeowner. The first 3 or 4 chapters of this book is her pretty much her repeating how if you want to buy a home, you can’t really go out for drinks with friends and basically have to be a social Monk in order to be an adult, seemingly trying to talk you out of it. If you even consider this book, you’re interested in buying a home, not being talked down to, assumed to be irresponsible, and given less information that a first google search. Pass.

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