More and more good stuff on this thread. I am VERY grateful!
Good posts about maintenance. I was worried about it. Unfortunately we have very little budgeted for entertainment and vacations. (The rest is for necessary plane trips for the (grand)parents to see us and the kids, or viceversa). Amusement park memberships which we use all the time, and that’s about it…We don’t go in vacations, there is enough to do locally.
I think we’ll buy a house in decent shape so we shouldn’t have to do anything major right away. About waiting for the prices to decrease, hopefully that would make the wait for saving 20% down more palatable….