Guest Post by Honey!

I have come to the conclusion that house hunting is a lot like dating.

For the past month or so, my mom and I have been looking for a home to rent and I've drawn several parellels to finding a man.

1. We want what we can't have.

We saw several houses on Craigslist that were large and beautiful, but tragically out of our price range. We liked them, of course, because of thier size, location and look, but we may not have been as drawn to them if they had been in our price range -- the same way we occasionally find ourselves liking beautiful, but tragically unattenable guys.

2. We want what others want.

We were looking at one house, in particular, that my mom and I both liked a great deal, and which was affordable. After it became clear we would mostly likely get the house, my mom became worried, starting to wonder "why isn't anyone else looking at this house, is it not as great as we think it is?" proving that, as with guys, we are drawn to houses that others like as well.

3. Compatability is important.

Although we loved the house meantioned above, we decided against choosing it. It was beautiful, certainly, but there are more important things than that. We knew it wouldn't work well enough for us for everyday life, it was missing vital components such as closets and cabnits in the bathrooms. Just because a guy seems perfect and has a lovely exterior, like this house, if he's missing figurative cabnits and closets, he's not the one.

4. We get cold feet.

After we finally found the house we absolutely wanted and the landlords picked us, after we did the paper work and started making plans, after all that, my mom became worried once again."Are we making the right decision?" she asked me. "If I'm having doubts, does that mean something better is out there?" Even after we had hoped and hoped they would offer it to us, after thay proposed and we accepted, there was suddenly doubt in her mind. After going to the house once more, though, she knew she loved it, just as a nervous bride realizes she's making the right decision when she sees her groom standing at the end of the church, waiting for her.