Our Home Story (Part 3/3)

So we were searching around for other places, after making an unsuccessful offer on our first really nice one. And one of my co-workers told me that she just bought a new-construction home for a really good deal and she found out there construction company was also building a neighborhood near my search area.

So I decided to go to check out this place after work. I went to the model home and was really impressed with the home. The backyard is nice but not too big. It is facing a pond though!
I started asking about the prices for different models and checking out the different areas they have.

After the meeting, I got so excited and decided to take the Russian to check out the place the next day. He liked the place too and we think the place is actually cheaper than the first offered house and newer, of course, since it wasn't even built yet. So we decided to talk and negotiate a deal for discounts and upgrades.

Since the discounts and upgrades were really nice, we decided to make an offer for this place and ditched the first offered home since they were not willing to meet us at our price range. After couple weeks on the market, their agent contacted us and told us that they were willing to go down - but it was too late since we felt in love to the new construction home.

So now the processes of building our home:

1. Before making an offer, we had to decide the upgrades we wanted for the structure of the home such as front home style, number of garages and walkout or lookout basement, etc. etc.

The day we had to make our structural decision and sign the papers was when I was away to visit my friends in a different city. So Russian had to do everything on his own - I felt bad having to leave him, but when I got back in town I had to go and re-sign whatever Russian had already signed a week ago. However, when I signed the paper, I asked if we could make a huge change in the selections...

After a week, we got a call and they allowed us to change -- so we decided to make a completely different home model selection (a totally different floorplan). Instead of a full second floor, we decided to have a 2-levels foyer open area for the piano room and entrance.

2. After the first selections, we would get 2 months to decide on our interior choices such as hardwood, tiles or carpet, oak wood, maple or cherry, granite or laminate etc etc.

This was easier for us since we knew all the selections they had, and were not particularly impressed with them. We decided we could upgrade in the future if we needed to. So we decided to take all the free basic selections (the ones came with the house) except we upgraded the wood type to maple and the trim to white.

Now the process of building our first home just got started. We will post more about our home construction ... but for now we will give you a little bit of sneak preview of our home site.




Check back again next time!