After graduating from UMass Amherst in 2011, Dana Bull landed a job at an architecture firm in Salem, Massachusetts and started apartment hunting.  “I was looking on Zillow for rentals, but then I clicked on the ‘buy’ tab,” she told Insider. “I ended up getting sucked into the Zillow tunnel.” Bull and her boyfriend at the time, now husband, rented a one-bedroom in Salem, but Bull continued perusing home listings. She realized that when combining incomes with her boyfriend, Andrew, the two could buy a place and their monthly mortgage payment would be similar to, or potentially less than, what they were paying in rent. “It was the recession —…