[DianaB]

Both of you sound a lot like us when we first got married. First we rented a small 2 bedroom house from my parents but decided that the $60 rent could go towards something of our own. We bought a trailer house for $6,000 (we sold it for $5,700!!!)and set it on some land that my husband's parents owned (we started buying it from them sometime around this same time). After 3 1/2 years we rented some ground that had a house that came with it. It wasn't much but over the years we fixed it up and it wasn't too bad. We planned on living there for a few years and then building but we had a really bad year that set us back financially for a long time. We ended up living there for 19 years before we finally built our home in 1999 which was a really good thing. The flood last year would have ruined everything! It was over my head in the old house (we were able to buy the old house and ground a few years after we had moved out of it.) We had a couple of guys come and build our house. My husband doesn't like working with wood. It's not the fanciest but it's mine!!!!