There are so many pieces to this story, so there will be additional posts about this fabulous journey we are on! Three years ago, after Stephen and I married, we were making our plans to buy a home, figuring our budget, and all that good. We have been in rentals that entire time. Trying to get my credit up to par after my divorce took WAAAYYY longer, and WAAAYYY more work than we ever imagined it would. Around Christmastime 2016 we knew we were finally, really, > < this close. When we moved into our current home we signed a lease with an option to purchase once the lease was up, and that was our plan. Just for funsies, we decided to look around at other homes in the same price range to make sure we were getting a decent deal, and that we really did want to stay in the neighborhood we were in. Holy wowzas guys, we had no idea what kind of bang we could get for our bucks! We found several homes that were just gorgeous, some older needing a bit of work, some brand new with small...
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