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Closed on our old house. The sale was delayed after the cleaners we hired managed to flood the bathroom and cause $10k in damage. But insurance didn't cheat us and covered most of it. We got all repaired, got it on the market, and finally closed last week.
We've been in a nerve wracking few months where we've owned two houses and been paying two mortgages simultaneously, so it's a huge relief to be done. With the funds from the old place we paid off a car loan and put the rest to the mortgage on the new place. We've now settled into a nice state where our housing cost is about 11% of our gross income. So yeah, it's been a stressful few months, worrying if the bottom was going to fall out of the market while we were holding two houses. But that didn't happen, and now we're sitting quite pretty.