How Digital Tools Transformed My First Homebuying Experience: A Millennial Mortgage Pro’s Story

In true millennial fashion, it was time to buy our dogs a house. 

Like everyone in my peer group, I felt behind, overwhelmed, and terrified to buy my first house…and that’s with having four years of industry experience under my belt. Even when you “know” what the steps are – what you should be doing, that an extra couple thousand dollars down isn’t doing much to your monthly payment, and that you absolutely should not open a new line of credit – it’s still quite scary.

That fear turns into excitement pretty quickly - viewing houses with your Realtor, putting in your first offer, (finally) getting an offer accepted, all the way to receiving the keys to your new home. These were things that I wasn’t taught in high school or college. These were things that without my work experience, I’d quickly turn to social media to learn.