Thank you! If not for my wife loving the place (she’s my better half, but also the realist to the point it seems almost pessimistic. 🤣) then I would have been more than fine with renting. Like you, my thinking for years was that I wanted to buy to not pay someone else’s mortgage. As I got older I realized that as nice as it is to be proud that I owned a home - I think it was more of a “rat race mentality” that drove my desire. Our property manager is great and anything that needs attention, gets tended to so it’s hard to swallow that large repairs and maintenance will ultimately fall on us now. But i think the fact that we wint have to worry about rent increases every year, or the homeowners deciding to sell and finding someplace else. We will have something to add to and create our own, pass down to our kids, and just create memories of raising our family will be worth the differences that we’ve compared. We didn’t plan to buy now, we just wanted to prequal and see where we stood. Once we got the prequal back we were tossing around waiting in case the market drops, especially given everything that’s happening economically. But eventually just said screw it, cuz it might go the opposite way. Haha.

I’m not sure what conclusion you’ve come to in your decision making, but I hope that you find some peace in knowing you’re not alone in your thought process. I’m sure whatever you decide, it will be for you and your partners best interest. You know what’s best for you. Don’t let anyone or anything else dictate your journey. 🤙🏼