Here's How I Got a Mortgage (Even Though I Thought I Couldn't)

After my husband and I got married, we quickly started to think about the impending doom/joy (whichever way you want to call it) of "possibly" starting a family sometime in the future. To add to it, we both started to work from home: My project management position had recently gone mobile and my husband worked as a music producer in a home studio. Suddenly the two-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia we'd been renting for about four years (and paid roughly $1,000 per month for, including water and ...