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You’re Invited to Homeownership Day 2022 – Achieving Through Real Estate
January is always an ideal time to circle back to our roots, to review our long term goals, and realign with our True North. It’s a fresh new year, and anything is possible. Many people are taking a look at what needs to change, and if 2021 is any indication, we are still switching up the way we live and work in light of all that’s happened the last couple years.
As we saw people quit their jobs and aspire for extraordinary things in the year of ‘The Great Resignation‘, we also saw a huge shift in housing needs and requirements. People ‘quit’ apartments & condos, and opted for single family homes with yards. Families upgraded living space, as employment and schools had extended virtual runs. Change is still happening everywhere, and home is at the center of it all.
With so many people wanting a new environment at the same time, the demand for housing across the country reached record heights and the bidding wars began.
This is just one of the many reasons we offer Homeownership Day on a yearly basis; things always seem to be moving fast when it comes to housing, and it’s important to stay on top of the current trends to be most successful with your real estate.
Achieving Through Real Estate
The 2022 theme for Homeownership Day is ‘Achieving Through Real Estate’, and all are invited to this free virtual event on January 29th from 10am-1pm PST. Homeownership Day is designed to be inclusive for all humans – from renters curious if they can purchase property all the way through investors looking to sharpen skills and knowledge. Our program changes up each year so you aren’t hearing the same information, or outdated perspectives.
The program is brought to you in bite-sized 30 minute educational sessions, so you can get a variety of information on today’s important real estate topics. We know you’re busy, and this event is designed to bring about awareness and build relationships with the right community to accomplish your property goals.
Challenges in the recent market have been lack of inventory, bidding wars, discrimination, sharp price increases, loan / appraisal turnaround time, and more. Sessions for this year have been based around these challenges, and offer help to overcome today’s specific real estate market hurdles.
For this year’s specific sessions and offerings, click here:
https://homeownershipday.com/sessions/
If you’re looking to achieve great things with real estate, please join us and register:
Homeownership Day Online Event
January 29th, 2022
10am – 1pm PST
https://homeownershipday.com/sign-up/
Expect to be inspired with some innovative ideas and fresh perspectives. This is not your average real estate event.
In case you’re wondering, Homeownership Day will never try to pressure you into buying or selling real estate. The speakers have all agreed not to ‘pitch’; only to educate. This event is a public service that is put on through multiple outlets, so you’re never getting pigeon holed into the opinions of one particular corporation or company. Our speakers are industry experts, all hand selected with care, and our goal is YOUR success.
This year’s main sponsors are NAWRB & Vow2Save – both entities creatively serving the real estate ecosystem.
It’s my personal opinion that when we are all successful with real estate, we can focus on what is most important in life – the people and the places we love. If there’s a topic you would like to see covered at a future Homeownership Day event, please comment below so we can help you on your journey.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Top 3 Stores in Orange County to Shop for Consignment Furniture
Shopping for new home items can be so exciting! Filling a house with your unique furniture, decor and style is what makes a house feel like a home. Instead of filling your new home with items that all major furniture stores provide, consignment shopping allows you to design your home with unique, quality brand name pieces that are unique to your home. While you’re shopping for your home, you may even think of items you would like to consign! From furniture, to clothes, to just extra household items, you can consign your items before shopping for new! Check out our list of the top 3 stores in OC to shop for consignment furniture, based on personal reviews and experience.
Home Consignment Center – Newport/Irvine
Located in Irvine, California – Home Consignment Center offers a variety of furniture:
- Accent tables
- Home office furniture
- Bedroom sets
- Coffee tables
- Patio furniture
- Entertainment centers
- Dining room furniture
- Sofas
- Armchairs
They accept all kinds of furniture, from expensive heirlooms to trendy homegoods. You can drop off your items or they can arrange for pick up. Find their website and more information here.
Address: 18910 Teller Ave, Irvine, CA 92612
The Legacy Center Furniture
Located in Costa Mesa, California – The Legacy Center Furniture store offers a variety of high end items. You can submit a quote of your items directly through their website here.
Address: 2215 Harbor BlvdCosta Mesa, CA 92627United States
The Hunt Fine Consignment
Located in Laguna Hills, California – The Hunt Fine Consignment offers a variety of design, architecture, age and intrigue. The Hunt loves stylish furnishings and items that are antique, new, vintage, unique or just decorative for homes. They take any kind of items. They also accept large volume consignments, abandoned containers, or business closings.
For more information and to learn about the consignment items they have, view their website here.
Address: 23461 Ridge Rte Dr suite a, Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Where is YOUR happy place? Homeownership Day 2021 is going virtual, nationwide, & global.
Hi friends!
Although 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, it has not been without some unexpected benefits. One of them is the new age of virtual employment, which has opened doors for so many to have an opportunity at homeownership. Individuals previously forced to rent in expensive urban areas are now free to move to a larger place, for less money, and have more options. We’re all about that – and Orange County Young Professionals Network is here to support your adventure!
Simple Solutions to Buying, Selling, & Investing in Real Estate
To that end, in 2021 YPN will do our annual Homeownership Day event virtually, and it won’t just be about investing in Southern California real estate. Instead, we’ll be offering local expert agent guidance in many popular cities across the United States, and actually the entire world.
If you haven’t looked at your home as an investment, or considered property as a path toward early retirement, we encourage you to attend the event on January 23, 2021 and look at your real estate in a new light. YES, it’s a place to thrive, to make memories, to customize your taste, to raise your family. But it can be so much more.
You can turn one property into a legacy, and that’s the session I teach & am passionate about. This year’s title is “Concepts to Become An Automatic Millionaire in Southern California & Beyond”; you can register for this 30 minute session by filling out the form below. I’ll educate you on a safe, secure, and timeless strategy for building up your real estate portfolio. These concepts don’t encourage you to stretch yourself too thin, take on a second job, or become a handyman; they are simple and easy to follow. And you can learn them in 30 minutes. I’ll tell you what – if you’ll just commit the time – I’m here to cheerlead you to the finish line.
Owning Property Can Change Your Future
As many of you know, I have been personally working on this strategy for over 15 years now! Because Real Estate is my full time job, we’ve taken it to the next level with vacation rentals, and the creation of Flower Den Retreats. I have found that owning property allows me to truly express myself, whether I’m creating art within, or dreaming up the next concept for a therapeutic space with the ones I love.
I want you to be able to flourish in your space too – are you? If you are, please comment what you love about your home below. Its fun to share our unique ideas 🙂 If you aren’t, fill out the form here and let’s get you on your way in 2021.
If you’re curious to hear what other previous attendees have to say, success stories, or info on the sessions we’ve held in the past, just subscribe to our YouTube Channel. We’ll be uploading new content on the regular. Here’s a video from a couple previous attendees who were able to buy a townhome with barely any money down, and now they are happily raising a family there.
Let Homeownership Day Lead You to Your Happy Place
Sometimes, change is good 🙂 To have a supportive tribe around you as you grow is so helpful, and that’s exactly what you’ll get out of Homeownership Day. Like minded people who want to learn and level up too. All the speakers are no-pressure, happy to answer questions, and excited to connect with you. The vibe of this event will be fresh, fun, educational, and there won’t be a single pitch. Promise. We’ll see you online Jan 23rd!
PS. If you know someone who should be presenting at this event, just connect us by emailing ochomefair@gmail.com & the committee will reach out to them – we love new angles of education and to connect with other professionals across the globe.
Homeownership Day 2021 Sign Up
Looking to Buy or Sell a Home? See You January 18th!
8th Annual OC Home Fair
Looking to buy or sell a home? Investment property? Just curious about becoming a homeowner? Renting and want to own? WE have an event for you!
5 OC Home Fair Class Highlights
#2 Finding up to 90K to Buy Your Home – Down Payment Programs
#3 Real People – Real Estate Success Stories
#4 How Student Loan Debt Can Fit Into your Home Buying Picture
#5 Home Buying 101 – Pre-Purchase Counseling
Click here to register, just enter your information and select the class you want to attend!
Buying Your First Home in California: How to Dig up Down Payment Funds
Today we’re spending a Saturday in Pomona at FACE LA’s Homebuying Fair – we met them through NAWRB and LOVE what these organizations stand for. FACE has compiled quite a few programs to help you with down payment funds, and have relationships with LOTS of generous banks who can help with lower interest rates, buy downs, silent seconds, and more. Sharing is caring…so read below to find some free down payment funds to get your family into a home!Tip 1: Find a lender familiar with the Community Reinvestment Act, and align yourself with a housing non-profit like FACE.
Tip 2: Explore Down Payment Programs & properly prepare to buy a home with education
These purchase programs (and many others) have some caveats. The home must be your primary residence, and you must pass a homebuyer education class (approx 8 hours). Did you know taking homebuyer education classes before you buy make you 30% less likely to go into foreclosure? This is why many city, bank, and state programs will require you take one before receiving funds. Everyone wants you to succeed in your homeownership venture, so there are milestones like this in place to set you up to win.
Tip 3: Use OPM (Other People’s Money) to Help with your Down Payment
Tip 4: Layer your SoCal Down Payment Program benefits with bank programs too:
It was great to see so many banks offering programs to first time buyers. Here’s just a few of the programs our banking panelists talked about. If you’d like to get more info, sometime’s it’s easiest to just call FACE or check out an upcoming Home Fair – like OC Home Fair every January.
- Bank of America currently offers a 10K grant offering in low to moderate income communities, PLUS a 7500 closing cost credit that applies to the entire country, check into it! In many states 7500 would cover the majority of your closing costs! 🙂
- Wells Fargo has a lift program that gives 25K.
- Boston Private has a 1% down conventional first time buyer program without mortgage insurance (when layered w other programs) that considers the entire scenario. If you’re self employed.. this is a great bank to call.
Union Bank has a 3K down payment assistance grant for closing costs or down payment assistance, which can be layered with other programs. Sorry couldn’t find the link for this exact program, but here are the low down offerings!- HSBC offers 7K toward closing costs for first time home buyers, and also 1/2 off your interest rate! Their credit requirement is only 620 so they are good if your credit is bad.
- US Bank has 95-97% loan to value offerings & non-traditional credit consideration. They have a Mortgage Insurance program where they pick it up on your behalf. If you want just a lot, ask about their land program! You may also qualify for the American Dream program.
- Bank of Hope has an in house underwriting Dept with a quick turnaround. They also waive mortgage application fees if you have an account with them.
- Loan Depot – prides themselves on being very familiar with DAP – down payment assistance programs. They like to layer, and they can take credit as low as a 520 score.
Our annual Homeownership Day & OC Home Fair is right around the corner! We are hosting at Chapman University for the 7th year in a row on January 19th, 2019 from 10 AM – 1 PM!
Participating Nonprofits include NeighborWorksOC and Affordable Clearinghouse – offering a panel on grants, down-payment programs, and more called ‘Finding Funds to Buy Your Home’. If you are currently renting, these nonprofits are here to help YOU! Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals (VAREP) will also be hosting a class for veterans to take advantage of their housing benefits. Furthermore, Women in the Housing & Real Estate Ecosystem (
Whether you’re trying to buy your first home, or someone who owns multiple homes but is trying to grow your portfolio or buy internationally, our classes have real life applications to help everyone learn how to establish and grow a residual income stream. There is absolutely no pitching, anything to buy, or programs to subscribe to– just solid information presented by experienced industry leaders. 
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