Buy a House, They Said. It Will Be Fun, They Said.
Let me preface this by saying that, contrary to what this blog might make you believe, I am extremely excited to be a homeowner. I am also very lucky because one of my best friends is a real estate agent and made the process 1000x easier for us. With all of that being said, of course the process was anything but easy so I figured I would share some of our experiences. Alas, here it is: a list of things I learned during the process of buying/moving into our first home... 1) Buying a house is the perfect opportunity to learn how much money you DON’T have For the past two years, my wife and I have been paying much more than we would like for rent. Every time I brought up the cost of rent to my aforementioned realtor bestie, she would not-so-subtly roll her eyes at me and tell me that we needed to buy so we weren’t throwing that money away. My wife and I had a timeline though. We both needed to get steady jobs (check). Next was planning and having our w...