This week the team cover off on how in this current market First Home Buyers may be better to sacrifice the 'dream home' first & start with a fixer upper- Aaron talks about the process of renovating his home & how it was the best option for him.

What do you think? Buy New or Upscale the Old?

Transcript of Renovating For Your Future

Episode: | SE3EP80
Show Title: | Renovating For Your Future
Cast: | Aaron Horne, Patrick Berry & John McGregor
Show Length: | 21 minutes 47 seconds

Patrick: If you can pick some of those bigger items and find a way to make them happen then that'll help you grow the equity to do the smaller items throughout the whole house 

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Aaron: All right, guys! Welcome back to The Property Pod! Your weekly engagement here into real estate in the Hobart Marketplace. I'm your host, Aaron Horne, and I'm joined-- as always--by our two real estate agents: John McGregor [John: That is me!] [laughter] and Patrick Berry!

Aaron: Bit excited this morning, John?

John: No, is this the way you pause, as it was like: "present" [laughter] 

Patrick: Aaron's getting his old school teacher back then [laughter] 

Aaron: Yes, we are all here in the room and we're all very excited to be back with The Property Pod.Whether you're listening on a super yacht in the French Riviera or you're a nun listening in your chair knitting beanies for your grandson, we are here for you. 

John: Wow, that works perfectly.

Patrick: I like the reach you've got these days. 

John: I was pretty happy with that.

Aaron: I was lying in bed last night thinking about that one just kind of been like, how can i reach out to our two biggest fans? We've got Megan in [um] France and then nun sitting around.

Patrick: I apologize, Simon. I know you love to walk the dogs on a Sunday morning and listen to the pod, so my shout out is to you.

Aaron: Oh, nice! Actually we got a really good feedback for last week's episode from Simon. says [John: Yeah!] he was tracking along-- [Patrick: walking the dogs to the cafe and wanted to reach out and say: Congratulations to your dad, Chris. He really enjoyed listening to the show.]  

John: [Uh] that was actually really nice to hear. Hey, we had a few comments like that, too. I think people are actually surprised by the depth of dad's experience [um] because he's always fun to joke around; he's been good at his job. But, you know, it does stretch back a lot further than probably people appreciate but it's really nice for Simon to say that actually. 

Aaron: Even as you went into like all the stuff in the very long-winded intro that you read out which i did like Pat's joke at the end he's like all right that's the end of the episode [laughter] we're all done. But as we've gone through that, I was just kind of like: oh man! he's like had his finger in so many pies across so long and is really really engaged in the real estate industry so yeah it was very very interesting listen [uh] having your dad on and I did wonder you went to Adelaide for the weekend with the whole family [John agrees] Were you overshadowed by his celebrity now that he [uh] like there was Luke? [Patrick: he's been on the pod] 

Aaron: Yeah, now he's been on the pod, did you just feel like?

John: Let's just say, he's brought back a fur coat. [laughter]

Aaron: All right, boys. [uh] That's enough chit chat for this morning. Let's jump into a very well-

researched show. [the two agree] so just a shout out to our-- we actually have a new staff member on board who's helping out with the pod and helping out with all things content across the 4one4 Property  Co.We've kind of been promising for ages on the pod that we wanted to kind of be an information hub--a place where people can come and find all the stuff they need to know and we want to really help [um] grow everyone's kind of knowledge based on all things real estate. We're not here to be gatekeepers of information; we're here to kind of share it, so Niño has come on board and is absolutely killing it in [um] the research department and kind of helping us with blog posts, helping us with our social media and yeah absolute--

Patrick: We've got big plans for Niño. He's going to help us with, like Aaron said, blog posts, researching our podcast each week, but he's also going to help us put some Buyer Guide books together and some educational suburb books based around, you know, what it's like to live in a suburb, what demographic it is, and it's a wealth of info, so we really want to build a catalogue of just information to really help people better understand the property market.

John: Yeah,  absolutely! And I think, another reason why I'm excited about, is that that's his job at the moment like just create content, research, you know, provide and then reach out and obviously, in the meantime he's reaching out to us as well and get content, you know, ideas from their agents and everyone in our office as well, which is cool. 

Aaron: Yeah, it's one of those things where it's something we've always wanted to be doing, but we've just kind of had time constraints and found it too difficult. Yeah, we found a way to make this work and so it's very exciting.

John: Welcome, Niño, as our official copywriter! [the other two agree] absolutely and the most comprehensive useful notes we've ever had on the pod.

Patrick: Yeah, we're not actually guessing  this week

John: We've got notes. [laughter] so look out! [laughter]

Aaron: All right! So, let's jump into this first article here that [um] he's put it together.

Basically, what we wanted to focus on today was [um] was kind of renovating and first homebuyers, so jumping into the marketplace and kind of knowing not to stretch beyond your means, i guess would be a really good way of summing it up straight away

Patrick: I think, [um] Aaron, you're a prime example of this before it actually became a trend. 

Aaron: Yeah, look. I was trendy before--way before my time... [laughter] I've been cool since way back when. [laughter] 

Patrick: Yeah, I remember in high school, very cool! [laughter] 

Aaron: Thank you very much!

John: It's funny because it's true. Tell us about your story, like what was the genesis to start thinking about that to begin with?  

Aaron: Yeah, it's actually kind of ties in really well with [um] one of th...