House Buying Market

The housing market has been hard lately eh?  If you're a buyer, it's great for you.  You have your pick of houses to choose from right now at great prices.  I would imagine it is easy to find what you are looking for.  For instance, type in Des Moines homes for sale in a search engine and I bet you come up with a lot.

For sellers, it's not such a great time. I'm wondering if any of them in our area are considering a "rent with the option to buy" or land contract deal.  If we could get into a bigger house with several acres at a rental price for now and then buy it in a few years, that would be awesome!  I have a feeling we are stuck here until my husband's child support bill is done (3-1/2 more years...wow, time flies...not).  Oh well...if we've managed 14 years, we can manage a few more until we can find the perfect ranch house on a good piece of property.