Struggling with buying a house

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DH and I went through the home purchase process a year ago. We looked at 72 houses in our price range. It was always a compromise between perfect house and perfect location. One thing we noticed was that the houses on the busy streets were always on the market the longest. You can change the structure, but you cannot change the location.

We settled on a fixer-upper 65yr house that was perfectly livable at move in time, smack in the middle of a nice small neighborhood. Since moving in last August the value of our home has gone up a fair amount. We looked at another home in the same neighborhood facing the busy street (which I rejected for that reason) has not had nearly the increase in value even though it had more improvements done to the property/structure.

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