Monday Mini: A Checkin on House Ownership

A year after buying a house, Samantha shares an update.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steffan.
Never told you your prediction of iHeart Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And for our Monday Mini, we kind of had a
listener request, I guess you can say. They were like, hey,
checking in, how's that anything going, And they were asking
about my current status as a homeowner, which fun fun fact.
Today I got a text from a friend who lives
in Canada. Haven't seen her in a while and we
kind of communicate every few months. She said, you have

(00:41):
a home, a steady job, that you like, you raise
a dog, and that you you worked from home and
that are happy. She's like, you're the most successful adult
I know. I was like, wait, what scary? I'm sorry
with no children, those actually active, I was like, oh

(01:03):
wait what, there's a lot of things. But yes, so
I have been told that I have become a successful adult. Okay,
and I'm very surprised and it still doesn't feel right,
but you know, I'm gonna take it.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Take it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So it's been about a year since my whole house
buying venture and for this Monday Mini, I was going
to give you all an update. Yeah, I am still
currently living in this house. It is not completely renovated,
and it doesn't really need to be renovated. You've been
here any you have a room, you have your.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Tooth brush, hair, Do you have a toothbrush, pajama pants?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But you take it with you? Don't lie to me.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I do, but I'm ready to move them in.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I was like, I'll give you a drawer, come on.
But yeah. So my partner and I have lived here
for almost a year. We probably had one of the
easiest buying processes. No hiccups, fast in getting everything approved,
getting everything signed, smooth inspections that could happened. Have been
here for a full year. No huge things have happened.

(02:13):
Like I've had friends who also bought the house around
my around the same time I did, and they've had
huge things happen that had to pay thousands of dollars.
I haven't had that yet, knock on wood. But I
still love my house. I still love my neighbors. We
have a great relationship. Got them Christmas presents a little
like treats. We check in on each other. They make

(02:34):
sure my packages don't get stolen, like they're they're there
for me. So so far, so good. And I thought
it was really interesting because A recent article came out
about how they're more single women who own a home
than single men according to a twenty twenty one census.
They said ten point seven million single women own homes
while only eight point one million single men own homes.

(02:58):
So there's at least who would have a million more
women buying these homes. And actually, as I think about it, yeah,
most of the friends that I know who own houses
are typically women, either single women or women and their
husband type of brain. So I'm like, oh, okay, yeah,
that makes sense. It doesn't, but it does. And a

(03:20):
lot of that conversation has to do with the fact
that people are saying in the statistic that women are
more educated, less likely to marry young or pushing back
marriage and having children, and so are more financially able
to own a home, and that they are more responsible
in investing by buying homes, which was never my thing.

(03:43):
I was just tired of paying for rent, to be honest,
and I hit it under the wire because we know
interest rates are crazy right now. There's a lot of
conversation about housing market going down, a lot of big
evil corporations buying it out to drive up prices, so
you know, all of that stuff, so I was able

(04:04):
to get that done. I still pay a lot more
than I's expected, but it's not bad. It's not bad.
And again, like I said, I really do love the
fact that I do live in a home. Even though
it's only a few hundred square feet larger than my apartment,
it still feels like two or three times bigger.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, it feels huge, but it's not it.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
The measurement is not I will say, I do not
love that. There's sometimes a smell that I cannot identify
and it drives me damn crazy. I cannot stand it.
I guess I'm really sensitive smell. And there's something that
is very specific to could be like trash, but it's

(04:46):
not trash, and I'm like, where is it? And I
can't stand it. All the conversation having to make sure
I do the seasonal stuff that I would have never
thought about. It's been an adventure having gutter guards, caring
about gutter guard. I just feeling like I am my
parents in having these conversations, Like there are so many
things that I'm like, this doesn't seem normal, but I

(05:12):
know it is. Like I'm so caught up in trauma
and things going wrong and being dramatic, And maybe that's
just me being a millennial, elderly millennial who saw things
falling apart and assumed I would never be able to
buy a house, or never would want to because I
don't want to deal with like you and the refrigerator
and the landlord.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I thought you were just saying, like I want to
deal with you.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
You're my example, Okay, why.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Renting is sometimes not as great as.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I thought once all the time. But of course your
landlord is he's a particular case. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's how he is. He is a singular dude.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
That's how I want to get that singular dude.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
But yeah, it's been interesting. I'm still trying to figure
out what to do with my backyard because I do
have a small backyard. My dog loves it, but there's
a lot of vines and a lot of poison oak
and poison ivy, which I am not allergic to, but
there's a lot out there. I really want to get goats,
but I've been told that it is impractical. I think
I said this the first time I was talking about
my house. I still want them, I still really want them,

(06:33):
but it turns out my brother has some I'm like,
how do I get those goats, drive them two hours
to Atlanta and have them sit in my backyard? How
do I do this?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's a buddy guy.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
It is also those goats were main One of them
just kept trying to headbutt me. It was not nice.
It was not nice. But yeah, so right now we
do have everything's up and running. My office is kind
of a mess. But if you ever want a picture
of what my office looks like or what my studio
looks like, it looks like I have a floating head,

(07:07):
the complete darkness of the background, and then because my
hair is black, it just blends in it. I'm just
a face that was.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
There, you go.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I was talking when I was on Daily Zeit guys.
That's the first things they said about, like, whoa, you're
just floating. I was like, yeah, I know, don't worry
about it.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
This is completely normal. But yeah, having this space has
been amazing. There's so much that I don't know what
to do with this space. I'm really glad for my
partner because he comes in He's like, we're gonna do
this and this and this, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Like, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
If it was up to me, that would have never
been painted, nothing would have ever changed. I would have
gotten the new refrigerator still because I love it is
my price possession, you know this. I show it off
to people as well as my fancy bed. Yeah, because
I'm like, I got to the point that I was
like too old to hurt this much when I wake up.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
And it's funny because every time I use your refrigerator,
I'm like an otter trying to open a clam because
it has like a front.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Door and then another front door.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
But to be fair, you don't know how to work
coffee machines, so no, I have to you specific I
have to set it up. Please set it up for
you and say push.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
This one button twice. You're good. I'm just bumbling through.
I'm like, oh.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, but there's so much more technologically savvy than I am.
It's like you've been a producer. You know how to
work all these equipment. But just a generic hole. No.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Can we talk about the can opener, y'all?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
She really struggles with a can opener.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's who like millennials of gen Z, we don't know
what those are.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I did buy an automatic one. I think you would
have a harder time with that one. To be honest,
I can't do it.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
My mom has one of those and she always laughs
because none of us can work it. I've tried it,
she's explained it to me. It's I get how it
should work.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
It doesn't work. It doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
But yeah, my home has come together. We do have
two guest rooms. One is Annie's official guest room.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
We call it that.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
We've hosted many parties. We did all of our Last
of Us viewing at my house, so I was very
proud of that. Definitely kept me on a streak of cleaning,
which I don't do as much now, Like I am
going to be like spotlessly cleaning this week. But previously
I was like, oh, I have to get ready for
everybody to come over, because even when it was just you,

(09:43):
I'm like, yeah, you can deal with it. There's Peach's
hair everywhere. But when it was more people, I had
to really put on like, oh, definitely I am a
good housekeeper, listeners, I am not.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I am average.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think we've already talked about this, but yeah, everything
is going well.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I fear things going wrong.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm prepping for things to go wrong. I'm saving up
like things are gonna go wrong, which is probably smart
in itself. All in all, I feel very safe in
that home. This does feel like a home. I am
pleased to report and yeah, yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, I have many fond memories. They're already so already. Yes,
we're gonna make so many more. Oh it's true.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
I'm gonna move you in as a neighbor.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't gonna happen, and the curse of the fridge
will continue.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Never ends.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Wow, I'm very very happy that things are going well.
I think it's a lovely place, and I like what
you've done with it, Thank you, and I like being
invited there, so always always.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, Well.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
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so listeners, if you have anything to report in that
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Y'all are amazing, Yes.

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