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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steffan.

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Speaker 1: Never told you your prediction of iHeart Radio.

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Speaker 2: And for our Monday Mini, we kind of had a

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Speaker 2: listener request, I guess you can say. They were like, hey,

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Speaker 2: checking in, how's that anything going, And they were asking

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Speaker 2: about my current status as a homeowner, which fun fun fact.

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Speaker 2: Today I got a text from a friend who lives

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Speaker 2: in Canada. Haven't seen her in a while and we

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Speaker 2: kind of communicate every few months. She said, you have

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Speaker 2: a home, a steady job, that you like, you raise

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Speaker 2: a dog, and that you you worked from home and

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Speaker 2: that are happy. She's like, you're the most successful adult

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Speaker 2: I know. I was like, wait, what scary? I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: with no children, those actually active, I was like, oh

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Speaker 2: wait what, there's a lot of things. But yes, so

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Speaker 2: I have been told that I have become a successful adult. Okay,

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Speaker 2: and I'm very surprised and it still doesn't feel right,

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Speaker 2: but you know, I'm gonna take it.

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Speaker 1: Take it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it's been about a year since my whole house

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Speaker 2: buying venture and for this Monday Mini, I was going

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Speaker 2: to give you all an update. Yeah, I am still

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Speaker 2: currently living in this house. It is not completely renovated,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't really need to be renovated. You've been

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Speaker 2: here any you have a room, you have your.

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Speaker 1: Tooth brush, hair, Do you have a toothbrush, pajama pants?

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

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Speaker 3: I do, but I'm ready to move them in.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'll give you a drawer, come on.

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Speaker 2: But yeah. So my partner and I have lived here

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Speaker 2: for almost a year. We probably had one of the

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Speaker 2: easiest buying processes. No hiccups, fast in getting everything approved,

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Speaker 2: getting everything signed, smooth inspections that could happened. Have been

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Speaker 2: here for a full year. No huge things have happened.

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Speaker 2: Like I've had friends who also bought the house around

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Speaker 2: I haven't had that yet, knock on wood. But I

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Speaker 2: still love my house. I still love my neighbors. We

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Speaker 2: have a great relationship. Got them Christmas presents a little

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Speaker 2: like treats. We check in on each other. They make

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Speaker 2: sure my packages don't get stolen, like they're they're there

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Speaker 2: for me. So so far, so good. And I thought

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Speaker 2: it was really interesting because A recent article came out

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Speaker 2: about how they're more single women who own a home

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Speaker 2: They said ten point seven million single women own homes

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Speaker 2: So there's at least who would have a million more

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Speaker 2: that makes sense. It doesn't, but it does. And a

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Speaker 2: to own a home, and that they are more responsible

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Speaker 2: in investing by buying homes, which was never my thing.

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Speaker 2: I was just tired of paying for rent, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: and I hit it under the wire because we know

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Speaker 2: interest rates are crazy right now. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: conversation about housing market going down, a lot of big

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Speaker 2: And again, like I said, I really do love the

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Speaker 2: fact that I do live in a home. Even though

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Speaker 2: it's only a few hundred square feet larger than my apartment,

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Speaker 1: Well, it feels huge, but it's not it.

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Speaker 2: The measurement is not I will say, I do not

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Speaker 2: thought about. It's been an adventure having gutter guards, caring

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Speaker 2: just me being a millennial, elderly millennial who saw things

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Speaker 2: don't want to deal with like you and the refrigerator

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Speaker 3: I thought you were just saying, like I want to

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Speaker 4: You're my example, Okay, why.

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Speaker 2: Renting is sometimes not as great as.

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Speaker 2: That's how he is. He is a singular dude.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been interesting. I'm still trying to figure

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Speaker 2: have a small backyard. My dog loves it, but there's

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Speaker 2: there's a lot out there. I really want to get goats,

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Speaker 2: but I've been told that it is impractical. I think

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Speaker 2: but it turns out my brother has some I'm like,

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Speaker 2: how do I get those goats, drive them two hours

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Speaker 1: That's a buddy guy.

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Speaker 2: It is also those goats were main One of them

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Speaker 2: just kept trying to headbutt me. It was not nice.

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Speaker 2: It was not nice. But yeah, so right now we

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Speaker 2: do have everything's up and running. My office is kind

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Speaker 2: looks like, it looks like I have a floating head,

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Speaker 2: the complete darkness of the background, and then because my

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Speaker 2: hair is black, it just blends in it. I'm just

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Speaker 1: There, you go.

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Speaker 2: I was talking when I was on Daily Zeit guys.

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Speaker 2: That's the first things they said about, like, whoa, you're

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Speaker 1: It's fine.

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Speaker 2: This is completely normal. But yeah, having this space has

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Speaker 2: been amazing. There's so much that I don't know what

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Speaker 2: partner because he comes in He's like, we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: Like, I don't care.

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Speaker 2: If it was up to me, that would have never

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Speaker 2: been painted, nothing would have ever changed. I would have

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Speaker 2: gotten the new refrigerator still because I love it is

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Speaker 2: my price possession, you know this. I show it off

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Speaker 2: to people as well as my fancy bed. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I got to the point that I was

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Speaker 3: And it's funny because every time I use your refrigerator,

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Speaker 3: I'm like an otter trying to open a clam because

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Speaker 3: it has like a front.

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Speaker 2: But to be fair, you don't know how to work

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Speaker 2: coffee machines, so no, I have to you specific I

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Speaker 2: have to set it up. Please set it up for

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Speaker 1: This one button twice. You're good. I'm just bumbling through.

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Speaker 2: No, but there's so much more technologically savvy than I am.

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Speaker 2: It's like you've been a producer. You know how to

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Speaker 2: work all these equipment. But just a generic hole. No.

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Speaker 1: Can we talk about the can opener, y'all?

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Speaker 2: She really struggles with a can opener.

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Speaker 1: That's who like millennials of gen Z, we don't know

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Speaker 2: I did buy an automatic one. I think you would

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Speaker 3: My mom has one of those and she always laughs

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Speaker 3: because none of us can work it. I've tried it,

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Speaker 3: she's explained it to me. It's I get how it

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work. It doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, my home has come together. We do have

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Speaker 2: two guest rooms. One is Annie's official guest room.

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Speaker 2: We've hosted many parties. We did all of our Last

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Speaker 2: proud of that. Definitely kept me on a streak of cleaning,

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Speaker 2: I think we've already talked about this, but yeah, everything

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Speaker 2: like things are gonna go wrong, which is probably smart

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Speaker 2: in itself. All in all, I feel very safe in

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Speaker 2: that home. This does feel like a home. I am

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have many fond memories. They're already so already. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna make so many more. Oh it's true.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna move you in as a neighbor.

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Speaker 3: I don't gonna happen, and the curse of the fridge

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Speaker 1: Never ends.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I'm very very happy that things are going well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a lovely place, and I like what

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Speaker 2: The only members would