<prompt> Human: My girlfriend 32 and I 31 of about 8 years have been saving up for our first home. We have fairly decent jobs in the state of NY about 55ky. I currently have no real debt just the month to month stuff that is always paid off every month. She has 3 loans, 2 student loans and a car loan, about 40k worth total. We have a fairly nice and large apartment that we pay about 1000 a month on and we live fairly comfortably. My girlfriend over pays one of her loans every month to help get rid of her debt faster and pick up some extra bills around the house. Recently my landlord informed us that he will be getting a divorce and the house duplex is going to be sold. We started looking a house just for the heck of it, but we are really unsure if we want to go down this road. We have about 14.5k saved up. This is more than enough to pay off one of my girlfriends loans and a decent hit on another. When I last talked to the landlord its going to be a bit longer before the house is even posted on the market. We both want to get a fairly nice place 250k seems to be where we find what we like style wise. Thought the landlord promised to sign us up for another lease of our desired length prior to the sale so we can lock in our rate and we can continue to live on the property event after it is sold.All in all we are at a cross roads. We both are happy living here in our non-ideal place for a few more years, but dont have a problem looking for another. Im a big believer in getting rid of the debt she does have, because it might make some other things a little easier. What would you do in this situation?  <response>: get rid of the debt before anything. 