On June 14th, 2005, we bought our new home. It's the first new home for both of us and pretty exciting and nervous experience. The house is a 2-family, so we also became landlords as well, allowing for additional responsibilities to be tacked on to the experience.

Since then we've experienced all the joys of owning a home, where everything that goes wrong is our problem to fix and not the landlord's. (Actually, it is the landlord's problem, but that's us.) Here's a few of the major things that happened:

1. An oak tree branch fell in our backyard during a week-long storm (before we even moved in). Not a very big one, it was only about 35-40 feet long. :)
2. Our roof and chimney began to leak during a heavy rainstorm. Thankfully only leaks over the porches (as far as we know).
3. Jon (and his friends) built a retaining wall in the backyard to fix a drainage issue and protect the house. Did Jon bite off more than he could chew?