sdcellar, congrats on the purchase but mostly congrats on using the greatest metric of homebuying, your payment’s relativity to your current rent. Close to rent is good enough usually, same as rent is great but less than rent is fantastic. Having the mindset that you are not investing, you are merely fixing costs and hedging inflation will make this move a sound one. Good work, look forward to the details, moving normally sucks but I found that buying after renting for a while makes the move less painful, not quite fun but close. More like satisfying, because as you finish each portion of the move, you get to say to yourself “I’m not going to have to move that again for a very long time.”
