After a health scare brought them closer together, a young couple is taking their relationship up a notch by buying their first home. He wants to live in Rhode Island near the beach, but she wants to cross state lines to be near her family in Connecticut.

A frugal buyer searches for an affordable co-op in Mount Vernon, New York. She wants an inexpensive one-bedroom so she can save for a single-family home, but her big sister thinks a place with two bedrooms would be a better investment.