Last Things First

 

I am buying a house!  Well, maybe.  You see, this was a project for the last quarter of Fit for 40.  But as life has shown me so many times over the last 3 years-I do not get to decide the right time for things.  It so happened that my husband and I decided we needed to take a step forward and this was the one to make.  And then I was preapproved.  Like, almost overnight. 

(Insert MAJOR panic attack here.)

Ok.  I guess many people would say we were late in the game and this is not the last thing first.  Many couples do this in their 20s.   We waited until we finished school and the housing market finished its major collapse.  Had the mother of all hellmouths opened up under us last year, we would have probably done it then (and been better off for it price wise).  But, we took our time and tried to do it right.


Now, we have been in the house buying business for less than a week.  We have seen 3 houses up close and personal with realtors and a few dozen without. Not to mention hours on Zillow and other house buying sites.  Plus, I am reading the book pictured above so that I have some clue about how not to make a complete mess of this!

Like everything else, I am obsessing a bit and should be less hyperfocused than I am.  But, maybe I need the house to get to the next steps.  Maybe this is the step that will propel me forward in everything else.  And so, I obsess and look at every street I drive down, and read, and scour the internet like a pirate looking for hidden treasure.

How was your home buying experience?  What would you do differently?  What worked perfectly?  All advice appreciated!  Now, I am off to scour the internet some more.  After all, hidden treasure does not find itself.