I’m so excited to introduce everyone to our new home! Brian and I bought our first house together last November and we’ve been on a home ownership roller coaster ever since! Before the move we discussed renting versus buying immediately. Ultimately we decided with the dogs it would be best to go ahead and buy so we didn’t have to worry about the pups damaging someone else’s property (Loki was pretty destructive at our house in Illinois). Also- finding decent rental homes with fenced in backyards is not easy. Our house search finally came down to 2 very different homes. One was an older, slightly outdated, larger house in an…