Reply #42: Good advice from start to finish

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As it turns out, we did pretty well with our mortgage.

I wouldn't even be so bitter about our disinterested realtor if she'd ever made us feel like valuable clients, rather than a charity case. She never missed a chance to tell use that she usually worked in much more expensive markets than we were shopping, but she wanted "to help out a young couple."

In the end, my wife found the house we wound up buying--within a stone's through of several the realtor had shown us, but somehow the realtor had missed it.