After over a decade of renting New York City apartments both separately and together, my husband and I made the biggest move of our lives — both physically and financially.
In October 2024, we started looking to buy a place about an hour outside of NYC in Connecticut. At the end of December, our hunt officially ended when we closed on our new house. We moved in mid-January 2025.
Now, a few months post-move, with most of our boxes unpacked, I’m feeling settled into our new space and routine and thinking back on how we got here. Ultimately, our path to becoming homeowners was pretty smooth, but there are a few things I wish I had known before we even started visiting open houses.
My husband and I started our hunt on a beautiful, sunny weekend in October. We knew we wanted to buy a house within the next 10 months but wanted to start off slow, by checking out a few houses in the towns we were most interested in to get a sense of the market.
On Saturday, we scheduled one tour and stopped by two open houses, discussing the pros and cons of each house on our drives between them.
