Survey says......

So as most of you know, we have been looking for a house to purchase down here for months, literally months. Ever since we found out we were moving here we have been scouring the Internet trying to find the "perfect" house. The last month or so we have been meeting with our realtor a lot and looking at homes. With stalking the Internet and seeing houses in person, we have looked at well over 100 homes. A few weeks ago we found what we thought was "the one". So we made an offer on it and long story short, we did not get it. I am a firm believer in things happen for a reason, so we just chalked it up to it wasn't meant to be.

So fast forward to this past week. We looked again on Thursday and even though we found a couple resales we liked, none really tripped our trigger. While we were out we stumbled into a model home of one of the premier builders in Houston. We looked at the model, or should I say we fell in love with the model. We discussed it with our realtor and briefly talked to the sales guy. We weighed the pros and cons of a new build vs. a resale. After much deliberation, we have decided to build a house!! We may be crazy but it seems like the right thing to do. The price per square footage was much better in a new build vs.a resale.

On Saturday we went back to the sales office and spoke at length with the sales agent. Turns out they were getting ready to build a spec house in the exact floor plan we wanted on the lot we wanted. So perfect wouldn't ya say? Not only were they getting ready to build a spec home, they had already planned to add a lot of options that we would not necessarily have added(due to the cost) but will end up getting because of the spec house option. Today we went back and signed the sales contract and again confirmed the options. Since ground has not been broken yet, we get to pick everything from the brick color to the paint color and everything in between. Today we got to pick the brick color. You might think that picking brick for a house is no big deal, but when a dozen samples with four bricks on each sample, it gets kinda blurred. We picked what we think will be the perfect color, hopefully we are right.

They are supposed to break ground in about 4 weeks, so as we navigate this house building journey, hopefully you will travel with us to see how progress is coming along. I will post pictures and updates very frequently.

this is the first picture of our new house, per say. This is the lot on which our house will be built.