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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

<strong>This past week was wonderful and strange - my husband and I moved into our first house together. </strong>We both took the week off from work to move and unpack and get settled in. <strong>Buying a house during the pandemic was certainly a challenge on top of all of the normal home-buying challenges.</strong> Plus, because of the pandemic, house sales have gone up, and so <strong>we paid a lot</strong> for this house, to the extent we are <strong>expecting the value to be drastically less in a year or two.</strong> But, also because of the pandemic, <strong>mortgage rates are really low,</strong> so we were able to get a very low interest rate. <strong>One of the most stressful parts</strong> for me with this experience was that <strong>we had to have a few different people (i.e. locksmith, HVAC, movers, etc.) come over</strong> to do some things to the house right away. So, anytime we contacted companies/individuals to see if they could do work to our house, we had to ask what precautions they take (i.e. wearing a mask). <strong>We were very pleased that anyone coming into our home to do work was very good about wearing a mask while they were in our home.</strong> It was just another layer to an already long, drawn-out process.