I wish we would’ve thought of that before we picked out our house. We’re using the USDA loan and it’s mandatory that any damages to the house the seller has to fix before the closing date. So hopefully that delays some trouble.🙃 our mortgage was suppose to be $500, but now it seems like it’s gonna be close to $700.

We own, my bills are like 5 to 6 hundred dollars cheaper now, it was an adjustment though just remembering all the bills that have to be paid lol. & the first big mishap that takes place and you have to pay to have it repaired yourself is a huge shock.

So long as you sit down and make a table with a rough estimate of bill prices and what you and your SO bring home, it should help out a lot and prevent you from struggling. (This doesn’t count if shit breaks or hits the fan though, you’ll want to keep money saved back as much as you can)

We just bought a house in February. It’s cheaper then renting, but we also made sure we weren’t going to be house poor. We bought a reasonable priced home that we could afford the payments on if my husband lost his good paying job and we had to both get minimum wage jobs.

We bought a house and yeah its very different but it turned out to actually to cheaper for us then renting

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