Paying for Home Repairs
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Welcome to the Money Watch Show. It's Saturday, December 20th. I'm your host, Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst and also a certified financial planner. Hey, my co-host is Mark D'Alessio. He is also a certified financial planner. And more importantly to me in my life, he is the executive producer of everything that we do at all of our Jill on Money programming, all of the website, everything. He's the best. Hello, Mark.
Hello, Jill. Big week, big week, big week. Santa's coming. Rudolph is coming.
I watch. Crunch time. Of course, I watch the Peanuts Christmas because it's my very favorite holiday show. When Mark and I used to be able to do a radio show where we would just play any music we wanted until someone caught on to the fact that some of the things that we were playing were not licensed. Is that what happened, Mark?
Yeah, I believe so.
Yeah, we were doing something. Well, you know, we tried.
For the whole month of December, we basically played Christmas music.
And it was awesome. And it made me feel so good. And anyway, I love a Charlie Brown Christmas. It is my absolute favorite, favorite Christmas special. But Mark, hat tip to you, on my flight home from India, I actually decided in honor of Mark Talercio, the big mush ball that he is, I watched Love Actually.
I knew you were going to say that.
It was shocking. I've never seen the whole movie.
Oh, wow.
And all I can say is, how did my girl Laura Linney didn't get the guy? I'm not happy about that at all. Sorry if I ruined that for everybody. Spoiler alert. Come on. Her brother.
That's ridiculous. Her brother.
That guy was cute. It's a little dated.
Never gets old, though. Never gets old.
No. I know.
And it takes you to London during Christmas.
Anyway, Mark, what are you going to cook for your Christmas meal?
I don't know. It's a good question. You know, I was thinking not for the whole meal, but at least part of it. I was thinking of doing lasagna, which I really don't do lasagna. I'm not a big lasagna person, but you know, I am. I know you are. And I feel like Theo and Amanda would enjoy that. So I think that's going to be part of it.
Oh, that's good. Can you make a tray for me and then I don't have to do it?
You're going to come to Brooklyn? That's a hard no.
No, I just have to pick it up. It wouldn't be so bad. I think I have a smaller crowd this year. I think we have 10. So that's not bad. I'm thinking lasagna and for the main course, a pork loin. Pork loin. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking about that. I really want to do these pork chops, but I don't want to be schlepping over the grill for, you know, Christmas Day. But a pork loin is delicious and I think it's easy to do. So that's what I'm going for. Mark, let's get to our task at hand. We have a friend of the show, Brian, who joins us from St. Louis to talk about what, Brian, what can we do for you?
Well, I have a pretty old home. It's 125 years old, so it needs a lot of maintenance. So right now I'm looking at a little repair. It's probably going to cost me up $15,000. That's it?
Yeah.
What could you do in your house for $15,000? That sounds like, you know, like half a closet.
From collapsing. So that's pretty exciting. So, yeah. But anyway, you know, I think it costs about like $25,000 or so a year. So I just want to talk about, you know, how to budget for that and check in on how I'm doing.
All right. Well, let's find out what's happening for you otherwise. So first of all, Brian, how old are you?
I am 29. Oh, you're so young to own a home. Yeah, it's very exciting.
That's so cool. When did you buy it?
It was about four years ago now. So what is it worth, do you think? I think about $415,000 to $425,000-ish. The mortgage amount?
It has $305,000 left, and the rate is at $2.875,000.
Okay, so you're staying there forever.
Probably, yeah.
Are you married, partnered, single? I am single. But you own a home, so I don't think you'll be single for long after this broadcast. For a 125-year-old home, you spend a bunch of money every year. When I talk to a lot of the folks in the real estate industry, they say when you have an old home...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:07–7:31
2
How much will Brian's upcoming home repair cost and why is it urgent?
7:31–9:46
3
What is Brian's current mortgage, home value, and ownership timeline?
9:46–11:20
4
How much does Brian spend annually on maintaining his 125-year-old home?
11:20–12:58