Good luck, Piper.
For the first 4½ years of our marriage we rented. After we had been living in our current house for two years, the landlord said he wanted to sell.
We have never regretted buying it, 29 years later.
A colleague of mine living in the same suburb rented for 20 years, and realised at the end of it that he had nothing to show for 20 years’ rent!
We ought to have paid the house off by next year.
Regards,
Mike