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The Anchor of My Life
I have been a home owner since I was 18 years old. It's not that I was privileged, I just never understood the concept of renting when a house payment was the same or less than rent. My first home (pictured above) was a tiny 600 square foot one bedroom home with an even smaller basement apartment that I rented out for the same amount as my house payment... less one dollar.
My next home was over four times that size which was huge for a single man but I got it dirt cheap and I had plenty of time to fix it up. By the time I left that home (about 6 years later) I had a wife and we had two kids born to us. I sold that home for more than ten times what I paid for it but again, I had put plenty of sweat equity into it. 
 
  
 My 3rd and current home was similar to my first home when I purchased it, very small. With a wife and two infants I knew we would have just a short time to add space to the home but we liked the house and location so moving into a bigger home ... more

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