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FRED SIRIEIX GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH HIS HOME

We’d been renting for 16 years and lived in our previous property for 11 of those. It was our dream to own somewhere, but we knew we’d have to save hard, and that we’d probably need to take on somethi