Maddy, 27, and Drew Olson, 28, lived in a rental home when they got married in 2019, but they were already daydreaming of owning a place of their own.
Their landlord even offered to sell them the rental for $249,000 at one point, a price that felt out of their budget.
“We were like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so expensive,'” Olson said of the home, which sat on half an acre of land. “Now we’re like, ‘That would literally be a dream.'”
Still, the couple, who have a 19-month-old daughter named Campbell, had a plan.
The Olsons decided to save as they established their careers — Maddy is a content creator and owner of Over Ice Soda, while Drew works in commercial concrete — planning to buy a lot and build their own home to keep mortgage payments down.
