BigPaul,
I fully understand your proud accomplishment on house ownership, a sense of belongings...Your hardworks finally is paid of...Wish you the best and full enjoyments in the years ahead.
On a personal note, I learn my lesson from owning my first house. After pouring most of my life time saving into buying my first house is 1994, a truck ran into it within a month after I bought it. I had to live in the hotel for 3-monthes while repaired. Well, it was fixed and restored to its original condition (I made a few friends along the way, from the experience). The ultimate outcome, 10+ years later, looking back, is that (from an American proverb): "Be careful of what you possessed, it may posssessed you". So true, in the subsequenent years, afte the house was repaired, I lived the normal daily Amerian life, and felt in love with the great outdoors.
FYI, a picture of my first/only house is attached. it was taken today.

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