What To Expect When You're Expecting,To Buy A House By: Tori Ralyea Just a condo. Just a townhouse. Just an apartment sixteen stories high. A house not our own. With cars honking, trash overflowing. Broken elevators, broken gates, and no pets allowed,except for a price. The faint arguing heard through the paper thin walls. Renew your lease-that's another ten percent increase. Just a house lined in a row, a space for all of us to go, more expensive than long long ago. In February 2024, when the housing market in San Diego was still mostly atrocious and interest rates were at record highs, we decided to start out our adventure to buy a house in the most desirable, most sought after, most competitive place to live in America. My first thought was: It will be fine… right? I grew up in Los Angeles’s pleasant but bland suburbs, where the only thing happening in our little town was Six Flags Magic Mountain. You were forced to love roller coasters...