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| Furniture shopping for the house with Mom and Dad. |
This year has been pretty eventful due to buying a new home. It wasn't something I really saw on the table thanks to the very high housing market, but my parents proposed going in on a house together that they would live in part-time. So I started my search in January of this year. I started out just going to a few open houses to see what was available. There wasn't a lot on the market at the time, and more of it I couldn't really get to because I didn't have a realtor. Mom and Dad were working on financing the house with lenders, who were supposedly going to set me up with a realtor, but that didn't really pan out. Eventually, I just requested a realtor through Zillow, which was a much easier process. They set me up with Tylene Ama, who ended up being a real help to us. I believe she was still pretty new to the business, which concerned me at first, but I think was an advantage in the end. It gave her more enthusiasm for the work and allowed her to provide better service than some uber-experienced veteran. It was also fun because she achieved some milestones through our time together, like she graduated a training program while I was working with her.
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