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First-year Teacher Buys a House on $37K Salary!

Hannah is a first-year art teacher (going into her second year) teaching in a suburb outside of a midwestern city. For context, she makes $37K a year and graduated undergrad in three years with no debt.

Today, we’ll be hearing from her first-hand about what the home buying process is like for a fellow young twenty something. She shares how she prepared herself financially for this big move and what the steps were to go through with the purchase!

Graduating Amid The Pandemic: 125k In Student Loan Debt And Postponed Job Start

Callie recently graduated a top 15 university as a liberal studies major. She had secured a job back in the fall with a healthcare consulting firm, but recently got the news that her start date would be postponed until January. With the prospect of eight long months doing nothing at home as well as the large burden of over $125k in student loans, she decided to go ahead and look for a part-time job so that she could at least pay the minimum payments on her debt once the grace period ends.