[quote=flu]Side note: I don’t see the point of buying a nice looking home if you have kids…It just ends up getting beaten up….[/quote]

I totally agree. We’ve got carpet that is literally 20 years old… we’ve held off replacing it because the kids were still young. Now with them at age 7 and 9, we’re considering it. But, we just got a dog… so maybe next year. LOL