At 44, I Bought My First Home During Covid

How timing, luck, and naiveté got us our first home

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It started with an urgent text. Then another. And another.

Since COVID had grabbed hold of the US three months earlier, we hadn’t seen many of our friends and for Father’s Day, James and his buddy were golfing on the recently re-opened course. Meanwhile, at home, I prep our celebratory late lunch and perused the…