Tell me about buying a home for the first time

[DeeBye]

PS Take your time -- good or bad, you'll probably have to live with it for a while, and little things are like a toothache. The longer you put up with them, the more they bother you.

Yep, we do have time. There is a timetable at play, but we still have well over a year before we absolutely need to buy something. The last thing I want is to be forced to settle on something we don't really care for.

I hope this whole house-hunting thing goes quick, but I suspect that it will drag out for a long time.