For the ones who bought a house, in this pandemonium...did you use any down payment assistance when buying your home? I'm in a good place to finally start searching for a spot, I'm afraid to be super discouraged since I didn't buy during the beginning the pandemic.

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I didn’t but I had also been saving for 5 years.

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