And 27 houses later...

We arrived in the area May 16. And now, 27 houses later, we can say: we have a house!

We are super excited and feel blessed to have gotten this house. It seems like we squeaked in our just-good-enough offer just-early-enough. Within hours after our offer was accepted, we found out that they canceled two more showings and there was another family who was prepared to write an offer.

It's the right balance for us. The location is great, a cul-de-sac close to the town center, but not in a neighborhood with a name which raises the price sometimes by 100K. The house is not new (1977) but seems like over half of it is newly renovated (2004). Actually, if the house had been completely renovated or any younger, it probably would have been out of our price range. And now there's some updating leftover to do that I get to choose myself. 

More to come, including pictures and more commentary about how we got to this point in our house search. But just putting it on the record: we are homeowners again.