It's Final

Over the past few months Cassie and I have been working through the process of buying a house.  We have been working out the financing, getting a realtor and looking at homes.  Over the past few weeks we have looked at several homes, we found some we really liked, one in particular, and some not so much.  We narrowed down the area to Fall Creek, it's a cool master planned community across the way from where I did my internship with Perry Homes.  It is home to the Shell Houston Open, a nice gold course, but I couldn't afford it, even if I did play golf.  In our search we found one section in particular that we especially liked.  The homes had a more rustic look to them, with the stone and brick combination.  Every time we drive through the neighborhood there are people out working in the yard or talking to neighbors and you just get a good feeling there.  We found a house in this section about a week ago, and by the time we got our offer in the homeowners had already accepted an offer on a different home.  Cassie and I were pretty bummed for a few days, but we started the search again.  Cassie has been looking during the day with the realtor and when they found something they thought I might like we would go check it out after I got off work.  This past week we found one that was a good second choice, it was a Perry so I knew it was built well, and it had a few upgrades, but it still didn't have the stone that I liked, and it was not in a section that we were crazy about.  After looking at that home we discussed possibly going back to the section that we found the other home is and talk to the builder who still had some lots available.  We had already visited the builders model and even though they were offering 15,000 dollar incentives, we still would not get as much for the money if we were able to find a good deal.  We decided to set our price and give the builder  challenge.  We knew we would not be able to get the upstairs seeing how is was a 27,000 dollar upgrade, but we pretty much wanted everything else for the same price we would be willing to pay for the other home we found and liked that was a Perry.  We met with the Sales Rep, Mike, last night along with our realtor and started talking about the options.  About two hours later, he had us sold.  The list was long, but not impossible . . . We got the bay window, stone elevation, study option, and brick on the fireplace.  Cassie and I are on cloud nine, we didn't think he would be able to make it all happen, but he did, and he even threw in another 3,000 for good measure.  The lot we picked out is on the corner so it is about 15 feet wider, and while it's not much deeper, it is still deeper than the other option and will give us about a 30 ft deep back yard.  The corner lot will be really nice the house will not feel so closed in with the 5 ft lot lines that you would typically have.  We were able to give the other side yard about 8 ft and the left will be plenty big because we have the sidewalk all around.  Go check out the pictures we took of the lot here, we also took tons of pictures of the surrounding homes by the same builder so we can narrow down our brick and stone combination.  That's all for now, we are really excited to be buying a home, and being able to build is really awesome.  With my experience I really feel bad for the superintendent building the home, because I will be all over this thing, but I guarantee it will be the best house on the block by the time I get done with it.  I will try to keep the blog up to date with the progress of the house construction, pictures etc.  I never thought in a million years I would be at this point in my life so soon out of college, but Cassie and I are very fortunate!