I moved in on Dec 9, 1983. The purchase was done in August, but the owners needed time to line up their next home. I assumed a 13.25% loan that had been co-signed by the owner's parents. That slowed the process as well. By August 1985, I refinanced that loan to a 15 year, 10%. The house was on Handel Way.
We were almost there nearly the same time. We moved into an apartment north of Mira Mesa in Dec 82. Then to Mission Gorge, Del Cerro, and Tierra Santa, finally buying a house in Oceanside.