Housing

I'm really beginning to get excited. On Friday, we close on our first house--a townhouse about a block from where we currently rent.

The rental lease is going as smoothly as we would've liked, so we'll probably have an excess of housing until June, unless we find someone to take over the lease of our current house.

More than two years ago, we looked at the market a bit before we got married. In Purcellville and Round Hill (where were living at the time), there was nothing habitable for under $300,000. We couldn't reasonable afford that, so we ended up with a rental in Leesburg and have continued to watch the market. It's been going down for more than a year, so that houses in this area are reaching a range of affordability for us and we've had most of two years to save toward a down payment.

When we first made the offer, we were thinking about all the work that should be done on the house and how much money we were going to be spending and we were feeling more anxious than excited. One friend suggested we shouldn't go ahead with it unless we were really excited about it. We continued to pursue it anyway and we are now getting excited!