Hello, welcome to or welcome back to trying to care. If you're new here, my name's Ashley,

and I'm so happy to have you. I'm so excited that I can finally tell you this. I know I'm so

annoying. That's like I didn't need to keep this a secret, but I just wanted to make sure that

it happened before I announced it. But I just bought my first house. And if you've listened to a

couple of my episodes, you might be a little

confused because a couple months ago, I said that we were not buying a house because we were looking

for a little bit. And then we had decided that it just wasn't in the cards for us. It was too expensive.

There were all these things happening. And we were going to stay at the house we were renting for

another year.

But things just happened really quickly and I decided I wanted to buy a house.

Probably like a couple days after I posted that episode saying that we weren't going to buy

a house anymore, I was talking to Josh and he was like, you know what? I do want to buy a house

and that really threw me off because if you don't know next year we're getting married

and a wedding is expensive a house is expensive I thought it was one or the other but we decided we

wanted to start looking again and just see what's out there and see if it was the right thing for us to

do so like back in April maybe a little before, we were going to buy a different house.

We toured it. We put an offer in. The seller accepted it. But I guess the agent was supposed to

have the seller sign over the weekend and he didn't. And what ended up happening was someone

else had swooped in and offered way more. Like, I'm talking like $50,000 more than we did and the seller naturally

selected them at the time I was so frustrated and upset about it because we had finally found a house

and if you're buying a house right now you know how difficult it is to actually get a house

because everyone outbids you and the houses themselves are way too expensive.

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