I began searching for a house in early 2005. My fiancé and I were tired of living above a couple of smokers in the middle of the city and wanted a slightly larger place. When I moved to Maine after graduating college, my plan had been to move into a house when I was ready to move out of the apartment that I had gotten, so we decided to start looking.

We found a great real estate agent that knew the area really well and worked with us for a long time to find the right house for us. The biggest problem was that we were not really willing to live in anything that was in the price range that we set forth as what we were willing to pay.
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