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Well I guess it's pretty safe now to say that Husband and I bought a house!! It's been a kind of crazy ride, and things ended up moving pretty quickly. The first place we looked at, we really loved, but the HOA had weird rules. Like no street parking-EVER. Apparently there was guest parking somewhere for if you have people over, but we didn't see it. Either way, there was already an offer in on that place when we looked at it, but our realtor wasn't aware of it. And that offer would have been pretty tough to beat, so we decided to keep looking. We found three or four (I'm not 100% sure) more listings to check out a few days later, and by the afternoon of the day we were set to check them out, two of them had offers. Crazy. So we went to one Husband found that I wasn't too keen on based on the pictures. I ended up really liking it despite the light oak. Light oak is just awful in my eyes. However, I knew it would be stupid for that to be a deal breaker and this place was probably almost double the size of the others, for close to the same price. Hot dang. We can paint, but we can't really do much about space. So, we decided to put an offer in. And just a day later, it was accepted! It's still kind of surreal. As it sits right now, we're just waiting for the appraisal and we'll close at the end of the month. We're so excited to have our own space. Some days it seems like people in apartments just don't care. Whether it's noise, garbage, or idling your stupid truck for 30 minutes at a time. News flash: it's because of people like you that we have such terrible air!! End rant. I don't have any pictures of the place right now, I'd love to do some painting first. Maybe after we get settled I'll post some, but until then we're running around trying to get everything taken care of for the move.