We Are Getting A House! Part 1

As the first post on my thread I will start at the beginning and slowly give a retrospective of the past few months since we moved in. Bear with the early stories, they may be boring but I BOUGHT A FREAKING HOUSE and this is exciting for a twenty-something kid. The most expensive thing I had bought up until now was a cheap computer that I still had to finance in order to make payments.

So a few years ago I moved into the city to experience all that the urban life had to offer. Being a suburbanite my entire life I was equal parts anxious and apprehensive. Immediately I fell in love with the lifestyle and the short commute to work and school. Side Note: Over the course of these few years my better half bumped around from apartment to apartment with a few friends trying to find a happy medium between work and school for her commute. We had yet to live together at this point.

I began working part time as a property manager for a foreclosure real estate agent (so now let's add that up, 40+ hours at my full time job, 9 hours of class, 5-10 hours of homework, and now another 10-20 hours of property management... I must have hated life).

Pretty much this.

About a year in to working as a property manager, I was shown a townhouse right up the block from where I currently lived that had gone into foreclosure.

So I brought the girlfriend by to check out the house, she was apprehensive but said if we could get it for a reasonable price then we should. It is in a good part of Baltimore with virtually no crime and it had always been my dream to work on my own house. A big issue for me was parking, I drive a pick-up truck and approximately 99.999% of the city does not lend itself to parking a vehicle closer than 563 blocks (approx.) from your house. So since this house was in that 0.001% area that had parking in the immediate vicinity, I was interested.

I looked into the price, but it was out of our price range... over twice our price range at 236k (we are poor college kids, that is a ton of money to us!) So we put it out of our mind and moved on with our lives, working and studying. A few months went by and the price dropped, it went down to 216k, and then again to 147k... but still more than we can afford. So once again we went on with our lives, working, studying, working...

Please wait for the Thrilling Conclusion in "We Are Buying A House! Part Two"