The couple, who married in 2015, had been renting a cramped house near downtown Bloomington, Ind., for years. But now, renting near campus made them feel almost as if they were back in graduate school. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]They entered a competitive housing market last year with high hopes, but limited funds for a down payment. Ms. Carter, who enjoys cooking, wanted a bigger kitchen and enough space to have Thanksgiving dinners and Passover Seders. “That was a super-tough market to be in,” said Mr. Saunders, the owner of Saunders & Associates, in Bloomington.

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Persons: Selene Carter, Steven Hendren, Covid, “, ”, Carter, Hendren, John Saunders, Saunders Organizations: Indiana University Bloomington, Saunders & Associates Locations: Bloomington, Ind, Indianapolis