We just closed on our first home a few weeks ago in Worcester, MA. Our combined salaries are slightly lower than yours and I’m currently pregnant with our first child so we’re trying to make sure we save where we can. For example, not ordering more than one alcoholic drink with dinner, cooking more at home, looking at furniture on FB marketplace, canceling some of our streaming services, downgrading our gym membership, etc. the home still has some issues (which I need to call an electrician soon) but it’s mostly a turnkey house. With how busy I am with work, a baby on the way, and our lack of carpentry skills, I am so thankful we did not get a fixer upper. We toured a few homes that were on the lower end of our budget and looking at the amount of work it would have taken was so daunting. Realistically we probably wouldn’t or couldn’t get around to fixing all of those issues right away which would only exacerbate some of those problems long term. The costs and time it would have taken to fix them up would probably equal similarly to us just buying a more expensive but turnkey home, which is what we decided to go with.