Nicole Lapin

To be really, really honest.

There are emotional factors to it.

And if it makes you sleep better at night, then that's amazing.

But just be really, really honest that that's the reason.

How did you emotionally get over it?

Money.

The math got you over it.

Yeah.

I think when you have a lot of these hard conversations and emotions swell up, and if you're working with a partner who also has emotions around it, I think if you go back to the numbers, for us, it was most important to optimize for net worth after 30 years.

Not right now.

Yeah, that's not my life.

Well, you know, that's been popularized, obviously, by HGTV and you think you can flip.

And that's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about typically what you're going to be spending on those property taxes is around, again, 1%.

Every area is going to be different.

And then, you know, whatever typical maintenance...

You're going to have the roof needs fixing.

The HVAC system goes out.

I mean, you just need to remember that at that point when you become a homeowner, nobody is coming to fix that stuff.

And that stuff is very, very expensive.