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Meet the real estate experts who advise “houses before spouses” – recommending people buy homes with their friends to get on the property ladder.
Stephanie Douglass, 35, and Kristina Modares, 34, are co-founders of a real estate agency that specializes in helping millennials and Gen Z purchase homes with friends.
The duo started the company in 2019 after individually buying their first properties with pals and aimed to “break the barriers of traditional homeownership”.
Since then, Stephanie and Kristina have gone on to buy four properties together, which they say is an easier way to get on the property ladder.
Stephanie has bought an...
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Since our theme is “Fantasy vs. Reality” I had to include this idiotic article about young people speculating on homes in Austin, Texas. Yes, the same place that makes every list of the cities with the greatest odds for home price collapse, with articles such as this one: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/austin-house-prices-are-falling-but-experts-say-19378718.php. Want to destroy yourself financially? Buy a single-family home with maximum debt load in a declining market. I know that HGTV had on all these shows like “Flipping Vegas” BUT ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE SHOW STOPPED FILMING IN 2014? ALL THOSE EPISODES ARE REPEATS. The single-family home flipping ship sailed years ago when 3% mortgages walked the earth and I’m sure you’ll revisit this article three years from now and the ending will not be the fantasy that was suggested. Before any young person follows this article’s advice, they need to talk to an old person who saw what happened to Austin real estate in 1990 and again in 2000. Heck, you can just call me!