These days Ari Brooks is trying really hard not to think about mortgage rates.

“I try not to, because it gives me a lot of anxiety,” she says. Brooks and her family live just outside Boise, Idaho, which has turned into one of the toughest places in the entire country to buy a house.

People have been moving there in droves, driving prices up 82% in just the past three years, according to data from the National Association of Realtors.

So after getting outbid again and again, she and her husband TR Brooks decided to buy a house from a homebuilder before it was built.

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