Tracy Venturi:

Let's talk about falling in love with your house, or maybe you have fallen out of love with your house. You know, we've been spending a lot more time home this past year and like Eddie just said, maybe we get to spend a little less time in our home, but we now know what it's like to be home a lot.

Tego Venturi:

Well, it's interesting because like Eddie said in the opening, there is, you know, 20, 20 redefined the meaning of home. And what does home mean? You know, it's not just a house, it's not just a piece of real estate, although many times in our business. And unfortunately it can get kind of mechanical like that, but it isn't, I mean, a home has a lot behind it, right?

Tracy Venturi:

You know, it really does. And there's a lot of satisfaction in home ownership and, and part of why it's easy to fall in love with home ownership. Okay. So we can talk about all of the financial reasons to love being a homeowner. Right. We know it's the single most important way people build wealth.

Tego Venturi:

Let's see, I had to get the right side. That's the left brain. Right? So it's it's yeah. It's the left brain, right? It's the, it's the logical. It's the engineer, the engineer brain. Let's put it that way, right?

Tracy Venturi:

There's a lot of, yeah. Solid sound reasons. Financial reasons. Why to be a homeowner. When, when we talk to people who have owned a home for a few years and they realize how much equity they've built wealth built into their family's financial picture, it's huge. But there's other things about being a homeowner, right? So it's the security comfort stability of being a homeowner, right? You know where you're going to be. You don't have that. Will the landlord decide to sell the house or will the apartment complex be raising my rent?

Tego Venturi:

Well, if I want to paint my bedroom's purple, can I just do that?

Tracy Venturi:

The other thing is the house is uniquely yours. Like you said, if you want to paint your room purple, go find your own house to live in Tego. But you know, you still have to deal with that. The house is uniquely yours and you can decorate it, how you want. You can change it. You can remove walls, you can remodel. You can do different things in your yard and your fencing and it's yours.

Tego Venturi:

Well, and I know so many people and will, will resonate with this is I, you know, there's certain projects that we do around the house that are just kind of like this meditative zen kind of thing, right? Mowing the lawn, doing yard work. I know, I know people go, well, that's work. It's like, well, no, it didn't. It depends what type of work you do. But sometimes just doing some physical work is, is great. And it's therapeutic. And I like it. I know that's, I'm doing all left. I'm left brain, your right brain

Tracy Venturi:

Sort of ironic that you would say that yesterday afternoon I was cleaning the yard from all of our dogs and it was like beautiful. It was like 64.

Tego Venturi:

Like they didn't, they didn't mow the lawn. Is that what you're talking about?

Tracy Venturi:

No. I was picking up after our three dogs and something you wouldn't know anything about. I can't relate at all. I find it sort of cathartic. Like you said, the dogs are outside, they like that I'm outside. It was a beautiful day. It felt very rewarding for me. But anyway, and today was trash day, so it's all gone

Tego Venturi:

And you're already wearing a mask. So it was all good. No masks, no mask in the yard. Yeah. Got it. Yeah.

Tracy Venturi:

So so anyway, then there's the whole wealth building thing. But the other thing that I think we haven't talked about much Tego when it comes to being a homeowner is your sense of community, right? That you're a part of something. You have some vested interest in knowing your neighbors. And when you go to the park meeting people, when you're out on walks, it's, it's your community, you're paying attention. You're more security aware for your neighbors and t