I have been debating on writing posts as we go (building our house) or just posting at the end when it's finished... but I think that will turn into a honking post!! So now that we are almost done building it, haha!!
So guess what guys?! WE ARE BUILDING A HOUSE!! Woot Woot!! We are so super excited!!
So intro into how this all happened, we started looking into buying a house late last year, I don't remember exactly when but anyways I had been watching realtor sites for about 6 months before we got seriously looking and there was like absolutely nothing! The market was so bad! But we finally did find a few that were "ok"... we were always settling in one was or another. After looking at a few houses we found this really cute one down Grandview in Hometown Place. But one of the absolute had to haves was a big enough garage for Tommys boat, so we pulled it over one snowy night (that was a nightmare of a story for another night!) and it didn't fit in the garage! Come to find out all the houses we had looked at and liked "ok" had the same size garage!! So I marked out every single house I had written down.
Well then Tommy got talking to a guy he works with and he was saying how he built and how much it was and all that stuff, so we went and looked at his house one night and fell in love! And... it had an extended bay in the garage big enough for the boat! (and after meeting with the builder and looking at all the house plans, it was the only one that would have a big enough garage... so we kind of had to build that house plan, but that's ok! We liked it!)
So we met with James Ray and talked about building! I think that was in January. He told us they wouldn't be able to start until the ground unfroze a bit because it was froze so deep. Long story short, we chose a lot in Hometown Place
So we hadn't taken a picture of our lot with the SOLD sign on it yet because there was a dumpster on the land, and I didn't want that in the picture. So on March 8th I decided just to drive by the back side of the lot real fast and just see if the dumpster is still there. So I was driving down the road on the backside of our lot, kind of fast :/, and especially when I saw the dumpster still there because I wasn't going to take a picture since it was still there. Well I wasn't paying very good attention because when I had almost missed the turn into the subdivision I saw the big mounds of dirt!! So I stomped on my breaks, skidding and screetching (bad on my tires, I know), barley made the corner! I was so excited!! (the story was a lot funnier in person, I was laughing at the situation all day-especially since there were builders all around to see and hear my little event there)
Anyways so from there we went and checked it out every night to see the progress!
Check out the progress in the next post "March House Progress"!
No comments:
Post a Comment