If someone had told me years ago that we would be able to buy a home with very little credit history ( my husband) and bad credit ( yelp ! Me putting my head down in shame), I would have told you that you were crazy. I honestly never thought that we would have a home of our own- one that wasn’t tied to a job or one that we weren’t renting. But several years back meaning 11 years this February we were kind of forced to look into buying our own home. Let me set the back story for you.
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If someone had told me years ago that we would be able to buy a home with very little credit history ( my husband) and bad credit ( yelp ! Me putting my head down in shame), I would have told you that you were crazy. I honestly never thought that we would have a home of our own- one that wasn’t tied to a job or one that we weren’t renting. But several years back meaning 11 years this February we were kind of forced to look into buying our own home. Let me set the back story for you.
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First things first: appraise the current 
