New Series: The Stages of Home-Buying

We're in the throes of trying to find a home, and it's certainly been an emotional roller coaster.  Billy commented that he was surprised I wasn't blogging in more detail about it.  My initial response was that I didn't really have anything to blog because nothing really has happened.  We're in the same position we were in six months or six years ago -- no house.  
But then I realized that while we have no change of address forms to show for our effort, we have a lot of perspective and insight now that we didn't possess at the beginning of this journey.  And that is worth sharing -- maybe it will help make a future home-buyer more aware of what to expect.  At the very least, it will chronicle this tumultuous period of our lives.

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So, follow along to see exactly how the house-hunting process has worked for us thus far, and keep your fingers crossed that the people of a selected but not-publicly-shared neighborhood in Pittsburgh decide to put a yummy house on the market for a price that fits our similarly selected but not-publicly-shared price range.  That would be divine.