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

This past week was wonderful and strange - my husband and I moved into our first house together. We both took the week off from work to move and unpack and get settled in. Buying a house during the pandemic was certainly a challenge on top of all of the normal home-buying challenges. Plus, because of the pandemic, house sales have gone up, and so we paid a lot for this house, to the extent we are expecting the value to be drastically less in a year or two. But, also because of the pandemic, mortgage rates are really low, so we were able to get a very low interest rate. One of the most stressful parts for me with this experience was that we had to have a few different people (i.e. locksmith, HVAC, movers, etc.) come over 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). 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. It was just another layer to an already long, drawn-out process.