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Let the blogging begin.
It's been three months since we stumbled across our dream home. And a lot has happened in those 3 months.
The current community doesn't have a model to walk through so we've traveled some miles looking at the model homes that are offered at Sycamore Run. We also did a lot of research (good and bad) on buying a new home.
We sat down with the sales rep (SR) and went through all of the options, upgrades, etc. and got a base price of what we were looking at in total cost. When the builders advertise on those small road side signs that new homes are available (as an example - "From the mid $200k") - expect to be in the upper $200k range when done with everything.
From the research and blog reviews that we did - the final price wasn't that much of a sticker shock. And knowing we are getting exactly what we want - we won't be second guessing on some of the things we picked out (okay, maybe on a few).
Two weeks is all we had after signing the purchase agreement to make any structural changes to the plan. We went over everything several times and removed some things and added some as well.
We went and picked out the cabinets, flooring, carpet, etc. a month after signing the purchase agreement. Again, researching blogs on this part of the process had us going to the cabinet store a week before our scheduled meeting to get an idea of what they offered and the available colors. This can be very overwhelming trying to figure out what you want in your new home - and spending several hours before hand and searching on line for feedback on our choices took a lot of the stress away and allowed us to make some smart changes to our initial choices.
The meeting with the mortgage company took a few hours which consisted of going over all the required documentation and explaining what is what. The mortgage company sent us the loan approval letter about 45 days after meeting with them.
We met with the project manager (PM) last week to go over all the details of the house, colors, flooring, upgrades, etc. We also had a list of 25 questions to ask the PM (thanks to all the blogging we did before hand). So at this point - we feel pretty good about everything and should start seeing some progress.
Updates to this blog will be made when time allows and as things progress with the construction.
Here's the first picture - a pile of dirt (dumped from the home site next to ours) and some of the snow from the recent snow storm. The dirt should be gone by the end of the week.
It's been three months since we stumbled across our dream home. And a lot has happened in those 3 months.
The current community doesn't have a model to walk through so we've traveled some miles looking at the model homes that are offered at Sycamore Run. We also did a lot of research (good and bad) on buying a new home.
We sat down with the sales rep (SR) and went through all of the options, upgrades, etc. and got a base price of what we were looking at in total cost. When the builders advertise on those small road side signs that new homes are available (as an example - "From the mid $200k") - expect to be in the upper $200k range when done with everything.
From the research and blog reviews that we did - the final price wasn't that much of a sticker shock. And knowing we are getting exactly what we want - we won't be second guessing on some of the things we picked out (okay, maybe on a few).
Two weeks is all we had after signing the purchase agreement to make any structural changes to the plan. We went over everything several times and removed some things and added some as well.
We went and picked out the cabinets, flooring, carpet, etc. a month after signing the purchase agreement. Again, researching blogs on this part of the process had us going to the cabinet store a week before our scheduled meeting to get an idea of what they offered and the available colors. This can be very overwhelming trying to figure out what you want in your new home - and spending several hours before hand and searching on line for feedback on our choices took a lot of the stress away and allowed us to make some smart changes to our initial choices.
The meeting with the mortgage company took a few hours which consisted of going over all the required documentation and explaining what is what. The mortgage company sent us the loan approval letter about 45 days after meeting with them.
We met with the project manager (PM) last week to go over all the details of the house, colors, flooring, upgrades, etc. We also had a list of 25 questions to ask the PM (thanks to all the blogging we did before hand). So at this point - we feel pretty good about everything and should start seeing some progress.
Updates to this blog will be made when time allows and as things progress with the construction.
Here's the first picture - a pile of dirt (dumped from the home site next to ours) and some of the snow from the recent snow storm. The dirt should be gone by the end of the week.
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