We tried to buy a house in West Philadelphia this week. After nearly three years of looking and we finally found a dwelling that we both liked enough to offer vast sums of borrowed money for. But it didn’t work out. Another offer was accepted and the reason given was the terms.
Finding a house is a difficult process, even more so when one person involved doesn’t really want a house.
I’ve lived in apartments my entire life with one exception: 2 years in an off campus house during college.
I’m familiar with apartment living. I like apartment living. I like not being responsible for the vast number of things that could go wrong with an apartment.
And, like many people, I fear the unknown. Homeownership is a big unknown for me, but over the course the last 3 years we’ve looked at many houses (in fact, the very first house we looked at was the only one we both liked…. until the house we saw last week) and I’ve come to accept that there are some upsides to homeownership.
Here’s to us finding the right place!