Buying a home is a big event for most people, and one that doesn’t pass quickly or quietly. There is so much more than the HGTV shows portray when it comes to finally settling down in your own piece of property and it is best to prepare for the rollercoaster of emotions that come with it. Wishfulness. The house search usually starts out with a less-than-serious look at properties in your dream area. You start with an online search of houses in a vast range of prices and have

I admit, I am a big fan of HGTV and (when I had more free time!) would binge watch episodes of Fixer Upper and Property Brothers for hours. I grew up renovating homes with my mother, whose father was a contractor, and honestly 10 year old me hated it. In fact, in 6th grade I wrote a poem for school about how I'd had to spend my Spring Break digging fence hole posts and hanging rafters in the hot Florida sun. My mother still laughs about that. At some point, between my college