My wife and I have been looking for a house to buy intensively in the last month. Most of my free time has shifted away from my site and over to house-related tasks.

We were really close on one deal—we made an offer on a duplex that was accepted. We were within 2 days of closing when the deal fell apart. We were out a good chunk of change and a lot of time from this, and we were kind of discouraged about the prospects of actually finding anything we’d like to live in at a price we could afford. It’s been super hard for me to stay motivated to write blog posts when I have been so busy, etc. Excuses, excuses, I know.

It Was Worth It

We finally looked into building a house, and we started looking at communities in our price range. There weren’t a whole lot of them, but there were some good options. We finally picked a community being constructed by Fieldstone. We’re building a house! It will be almost 2,000 sq. ft. with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. The construction timeline is really loose at this point—it could take anywhere from 6-12 months to finish. That’s ok with us because we’re stilling doing pretty well in our apartment, and our financial situation will only get better the longer we wait. If we get to move in sooner, we’ll be happy because we’ll have a brand new house to live in.

Now that the pressures of looking for homes, filling out applications, etc., are easing up, I hope to get back to my web site again. No guarantees, but I am excited about working on it again and I have some good content coming up soon.