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Our First House
After Marty and I got married we moved into an apartment in North Raleigh. After our 6 month lease was up we decided that paying almost $900 a month towards something and not getting any equity was ridiculous so we borrowed some money and bought a 1860 square foot house on a quarter acre lot in Harrington Grove in northwest Raleigh. We lived in that house for almost 7 years and loved it! The neighborhood was fantastic and the house was perfect for us and the dogs.
Of course, when my parents moved to the mountains and offered to sell us their house we couldn't refuse. We tried putting our house on the market as "For Sale by Owner" for a few months (we weren't in a hurry because we couldn't move into the new house yet anyway). After getting absolutely no interest, we signed with a realtor at the end of September. We had somewhere around 80 showings in 2 months! We ended up lowering the price once, and putting new carpet in - and then it sold for our asking price. We closed on the house on December 28th, 2006. It made for a very happy new year. I will miss this house, but on to bigger and better things - it was just a little too small for us and two kids.