<prompt> Human: rrealestate suggested I post here as well so here it is. My fiancé and I have been house hunting for what feels like forever. We have been really struggling to find a house in a suitable school district and neighborhood, a house that isnt a complete tear down and where the taxes arent too high county taxes can be crazy, like 1,000 a month is not uncommon on a 400-500k house. Earlier this week though, we found it. Its in a nice neighborhood, on a decent size piece of property, updates needed are purely cosmetic, good school district, the taxes are affordable and its within our budget. We are planning to look at it again tonight and then if everything still seems good put in an offer. I was so relieved that we might be done with our search until I walked into work this morning. Our company is being restructured and they announced a bunch of big change ups in the senior management. Things like this are generally followed by some layoffs of the regular workers like myself. I only started working here 6 months ago. Now I am worried that I could potentially be laid off right in the middle of the whole house buying process. I am unsure on how to move forward or if we should move forward at all. I dont want to not try for the house and then have no job trouble but I also am nervous about the idea of going forward when I feel like my job could be taken away any day. What would happen to the buying process if I did lose my job during it? My fiancé makes enough money that we could get by with the house on only his income. With both our incomes though its very comfortably within our budget. To add a few numbers our current combined monthly gross is about 13,900 his monthly gross alone is about 8,800. The mortgage, taxes, insurance on the house with our down payment would be about 2,800. We have one monthly payment of 2,000 that will end in February. Currently we have 90k in the bank but after down payment and other house costs we are hoping to have 10k left over. Should we keep going with the process or is it too risky with the uncertain job currently?  <response>: If your SOs income seems stable, it appears that you can afford the payments as long as the rest of your budget is in line. If I were you, Id settle on the house and start sending out resumes. 