House Hunting

Sage and I talked things over in the summer and decided that we would start house hunting again. We contacted our EXCELLENT realtor to inform her of our decision and what we were looking for. As a side note, our realtor is absolutely amazing! If anyone needs a realtor, she would be a great one to go with. There are definitely some good deals out there, but we've decided, on a whole-short sales are a bit scary! I may be a bit of a germ-a-phobe, but the idea of cleaning people's grungy stuff up really creeps me out. And let me tell you, there were some disgusting and weird things out there...

Moving on: Rhonda (our realtor) took us to a Corey Barton subdivision. We looked at one house and it just wasn't what we were looking for. While we're looking, Rhonda is on the phone with Corey Barton people asking about other subdivisions. She gets off the phone and tells us she wants us to look at a house across the street. We walk in and absolutely fall in love with the place. The floor plan is awesome and perfect for us. Unfortunately it was way out of our price range. Rhonda surprised us with some interesting news: Corey Barton bought out another builder/subdivision at a reduced price. Because of this we could build the house plan that we love BELOW our price range.

Very excited and a little skeptical, we drove out to the new subdivision. It seemed to be a great neighborhood, close freeway access and in our price range. We went home and prayed about it and sought some godly counsel. After a few days we decided to proceed with building. We met with Rhonda and a Corey Barton rep. and went over the entire house plan to figure out what architectural upgrades we might want (like an island in the kitchen, window in the bathroom etc.) This was followed by a never ending mountain of signing and paperwork.

The next step was our Design Studio appt. This is where we picked out the house colors, flooring, counter tops, faucets... basically EVERYTHING that goes into/onto a house we had to pick in 3 and a half hours. Talk about your decision overload!! Thankfully our exceptional realtor came volunteered to come to that appt. with us. It's a good thing, because there was a lot of confusion going on in there (new people being trained and so on...). Finally, it was all done and I never wanted to make another decision in my life. More papers to be signed and then.... we were officially building a house!!