Something is Happening!

It's hard to believe just two months ago we made our initial contact with our builder to discuss building our home. We had already researched plans and had narrowed it down to a few we really liked. We had also looked at some lots that were available in the subdivision we wanted.

Within the past two months, we have purchased our land with some guidance from our builder. You definitely want to consult with him to make sure your home will fit!! We have also met with our real estate agent and decided to go ahead and put our house on the market the first part of April. He told us the average days on the market right now is approximately 150 days, so we thought it wise to go ahead and list it. Although we are getting regular traffic, positive feedback and a couple of "nibbles", we have not had any offers yet. I'm not really worried yet, we didn't really want to move twice but I think the stress of having my home on the market is something I'm going to have to get used to.

We have met with our builder several times to go over the plans and make "tweaks" here and there to hopefully get it just right. We've met with banks to obtain a construction loan and insurance companies to obtain a "builder's risk policy". Everything is falling into place. He told us last week he would get the building permit and hopefully break ground the following week. I guess with all the horror stories we've heard about building, I just have low expectations about things happening when they are supposed to. SO imagine my surprise when I drive out to our property today and actually see construction vehicles parked there! It was early so nothing was going on yet, but I did take some pictures. I'm getting excited!!