In 1997, here in Nashville, my boyfriend Chris Fletcher and I bought a house in a Mayberry-for-eccentrics-type neighborhood.

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My local HOA has similar rules as well and I read them closely when my wife and I bought out house a few years ago.

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"I could have bought a bigger house, a fancy car, " says Pistritto, who drives a ten-year-old Nissan Pathfinder.

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While flying back to bay area I began to think about the first house I bought, which was on a brand new housing development.

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At the same time I moved out of digs and bought a house in Stockton Heath.

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That was when I bought my house, when there was a pullback in the price of real estate.

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So while he was only mildly annoyed that we ended up donating twice what we had planned, he was mostly irritated that I bought a dinner party for six people to be held at someone's house a half-hour away.

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