financial independence

Awww. At one point, I thought for sure this house was my forever house. Five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, in a neighborhood surrounded by houses I used to dream of. I moved in with my then boyfriend and we quickly realized not only did we not need 3,200 sq. feet, we also didn’t

This was my first house! After graduating college, I accepted a job offer to work for Principal Financial Group in Des Moines. EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE told me I’d be crazy to buy a house in a city I never lived in, didn’t know the neighborhoods, etc. But as I often do, I did