102 Wild Flower Court - Our New Home

I promised I would write a post about the purchase of Josh and my home, so here it is. We live in Central Texas not far from Texas A&M University, even though we are die hard University of  Texas Longhorn fans.
We moved to this area when Josh graduated with his BBA last August, and he found a job here with an accounting firm. Neither of us had ever been to this area before let alone lived in this new area. We are both from a small town in East Texas, where both of our families live. So to say the move was hard is an understatement. Not to mention we had less than a week to find a place to rent, pack our things, and move before Josh's position started.
So we get here, we get moved into our steal of an apartment here in Aggie country. We found a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1,200 square feet apartment for $1000 a month. Which is crazy good in this market area. The only problem was that it was a condo, which meant that we shared both walls of our home with others. And you might be thinking that we are crazy for hating that we were so close to our neighbors. I know there are places in the world today that live closer to each other than that, but we were used to living on a couple of acres with almost no neighbors, so it was quite an adjustment.
At this point in time I was a new Real Estate Agent. I had spent the previous 6 months working on my classes and taking my tests to get my license (which is another post for another time). But because we were new to the area, and every one I knew in the area were college students that I graduated high school with I was not working very much. It put a strain on our relationship because we both wanted my career to take off and get started, but at the same time we really wanted the extra income.
About this same time, we decided to stop throwing our money away renting, and buy a home in the area to invest in something and create equity for ourselves. It took us two months to fi

nd our dream home, but it was worth it. Like our condo it too is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1200 square feet home, but we are now investing in our future instead of throwing away money. Plus our mortgage is the same amount that we were paying in rent with taxes and insurance included.
We have now been in our new home for almost 6 months, and we love it. We have the whole domestic suburban life going on. And to tell you the truth, we love doing the house hold maintenance like mowing, weed eating, changing out air filters, bringing seasonal decorations up and down from the attic. A 24 year old, Josh, and a 21 year old, me, owning a home is almost unheard of in the day and age. We consider ourselves very blessed that God has helped us achieve all that we have.
If you have questions about the indepth home buying process, please comment below, and I will try to answer your questions as best as I can. If I don't know an answer then I will point you in the direction in which you can find it.
Thanks and God bless.