Thanks for the warm wishes.

This is our first house to own, we've rented before. Due to some career choices, I moved around a lot in my 20's and even after I got married we didn't have kids for a few years. When we did finally "settle down", we've been renting the same place here for eight years.

The house is in a small town called Garrettsville, Ohio. It is on the same street and less than a mile away from the first apartment Kim and I had when we got married.

It was built in 1846, has a barn and one car garage behind the house. The current owner bought it in 2002 as a fixer-upper and has done a TON of work. New roof, new plumbing, new wiring, re-plaster and paint all the walls, took up the carpet and re-finished the hardwood floors, re-tiled the kitchen and laundry room, put in a 90% efficiency boiler for the hot water heat, and put in a new water heater. Probably more I can't remember right now.

Anyway, we're pretty stoked to be moving into a place of our own. Like I said, we've been renting the current house for eight years and the day we move out there will be nothing to show for all those rent checks written.