Using the Zillow Phase of your House Hunt to Plan for your Dream Home

Finding the right Mid-Century home to make your own is an
exciting challenge for a first time home buyer. To kick off
Season Four of Mid Mod Remodel, this week I chat with my sister,
KJ Hansmann. She is in the earliest “Zillow” phase of planning to
buy a modest MCM ranch to fix up with her partner.


We’ve been talking about her house hunt process so much in recent
weeks. Finally, I realized that I should capture it for the
podcast. Listen in as we dish on some family history, chat about
why she’s choosing to live near her work place and have some fun
discussing this essential phase of any millennial’s house hunt!




In Today's Episode, you'll hear: 


An Invite to come ask me for design advice. I'm really booked
up at the moment but that just means you should jump in the
queue. Use the form on my services page to reach out [1:15]

My intro to Season FOUR of Mid Mod Remodel and what's coming
up [2:10]

Our chat starting with how my sister believed she would never
be a homeowner but how COVID changed her mind [4:10]

How she, her boyfriend and two high energy cats have kept up
two full time jobs and the kick off of her PhD within the four
walls of their ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT [5:00]

The great triumph of her quarantine house updating: when I
talked her through mounting a black out shade using a power drill
via zoom [7:15]

The AMAZING murals of Banyan Bridges and how KJ is absolutely
planning to get one created for her new home as soon as its hers.
[8:40]

Using my Ready To Remodel course content to workshop what it
is they really want and identify their key deal-breakers before
they even find a realtor [9:40]

Various Apartment Update rules we've broken and bent in the
past and howe well that's gone for us in the past. [13:00]

How the "Super into Zillow" phase can help you identify what
can be updated in a fixer upper and what can't be easily
remodeled [13:50]

One of which is the neighborhood. A little rant from both of
us on the importance of walkable, well connected, socially varied
neighborhoods and living where you work [17:20]



Find the show notes with all links at www.midmod-midwest.com/401