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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