Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy

I just moved into my first house and I didn’t know the first thing about home ownership. I thought it would be easy, but it is rather difficult. I think it is all the pressure. When you are in an apartment, the decisions do not seem that important. It is not your place and nothing is permanent. However, when you are in your own home, everything seems like it has to be perfect. I feel like I have to paint the walls the perfect color and I have to hang the pictures in the perfect place. I have even started to feel like I have to choose all the perfect utilities providers. I researched gas companies forever. Then I started researching internet companies. This was another process that took forever. I never thought I would get wildblue, but here we are with that choice. Everything is so scary now and I feel a little overwhelmed. Sometimes I wish I could hire someone to do it all for me and that way I wouldn’t be so stressed out over such little things.