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We Found Our Dream Home and Didn't Take the Lowest Mortgage Rate. Here's Why
Our family has been daydreaming about relocating to the Vermont countryside for at least a decade. When we discovered a renovated farmhouse with a pond surrounded by the Green Mountains, we were all in. Except for one problem: mortgage rates. We were …