Last year in the midst of planning our wedding (what were we thinking?!), we decided to start looking for our first home together. Several people warned us about the long, heart breaking process of searching for that first place, and they could not have been more right. For about a year we consistently searched, viewed homes and had our offers rejected. Then in the midst of our search Harvey devastated our city, so while we were looking for a home, millions of people lost theirs. As our city rebuilt we tried several routes, including buying an abandoned home that was set to be demolished and having it moved to another property. This also fell through, but through this process we were able to connect with our loan officer and learn more about the 203K program, which is the direction we decided to go.  Finally we found the house on King Street.  It had…