Add in several hours of intensive measurements (no room attempts to be a box, so some rooms have about 16 measurements), some window measuresments, and playing with the garage door opener, and we’re done for the day. We also managed to activate the major utilities.

Up next? Probably moving all the accumulated junk from our apartment…

I knew roughly the price range we wanted to look in based on what I was comfortable paying each month. After running the numbers, it turns out that even bumping up the price of a house a bit above what I originally thought was a “good” price, we’re still in the zone that I consider reasonable, even including taxes, insurance, etc. This should expand the number of places we can look at without having to “settle” for something in our price range.

I really never expected to be thrilled that I could go into debt so much, but, well, it’s really time to get out of renting a place, and become an “adult”. Something tells me that this weekend is going to be busy looking at properties within our newly-expanded range, even though we still really like one of the properties we saw our first weekend out