A little background on how we got into this adventure...
About 2 1/2 years ago Matt and I realized we would eventually need to get a bigger house. After Alex joined the family, it became even more apparent we would need to do so sooner rather than later. We just have run out of space. People laugh when they see our house and how much stuff is crammed into it but then add on the fact that we have rented not one, but two storage buildings in town to hold the stuff that won't fit in our house. We have a 2 car garage and yet both of our cars stay in the driveway because they won't fit in the garage. It was time to get more space!
But we had one major hurdle to over come - we were very picky in what we wanted in a house. We have looked at various houses over the past 2+ years and never found one we were willing to buy. Until we came across 1015 Binderton. Based on the pictures on lbar we could tell it had potential. So we email the listing agent in March about it and find out they had just gotten an offer and most likely would have a contract on it very soon. We decided to not even take a look and chance falling in love with a house that is no longer available. 6 weeks later I get an email from that agent that it appeared the financing was going to fall through and would we be interested in looking at it and being a back up offer. We were, so we went and looked, fell in love with the location (in a cul-de-sac, backing up to the Elementary school, in a very nice, quiet neighborhood), it had my big garden tub in the master bath, it had Matt's unfinished basement, and a nice yard. So we made an offer, ended up having a contract on it contingent on the sale of our house and put our house on the market.
3 weeks later the sellers got an offer with no contingency and we had no offers on our house so we were forced to release it and decide where to go from there. We had said all along, if we lost Binderton we would take our house off the market but having gone through that stress and heart break we wondered if it wouldn't be better to sell ours and rent something until we found a house we like and at that point be ready to make a cash offer and not deal with the contingency again.
8 days later we got a contract on our house. Then the idea of building a new home with Ball Homes came into discussion. We found a lot that is in a dead end street with empty lots beside it, we can build the exact floor plan we want, with a basement and all the upgrades we want (my big tub and a stand up shower for one) and spend more than $20,000 less than we were going to spend on Binderton. So on June 22nd we signed a contract with Ball Homes to build a McCormick II on lot 38 in Gleneagles - future home of 117 Shepherds Trace.
We are beyond excited and the excitement grows every day as Matt and I talked through each step of the process. Everyone keeps telling me that if our marriage can survive building, it can survive anything but I have a good feeling we won't be put to that test. We have already picked out all the options for the house - brick, siding, shingles, door colors, carpet, vinyl, cabinets, counters, etc. and haven't even slightly disagreed. We are just enjoying every exciting step of this process.
I will continue to post updates as the house progresses but as of today, our tentative time line is:
Selections Appointment - next Wednesday, July 10. This is when we make all our picks official.
Break ground about 2 weeks after selections
Close on the finished house 150 days after breaking ground - which at this point looks to be on about the 23rd of December. Should be a fun Christmas this year. :)
Now you wonder about my mention of moving twice. As exciting as building our new house is, we have one hiccup. We are aiming to close before the end of the year but are scheduled to close on our house we are selling on August 20th. That leaves us a little more than 4 months with no where to go. So the search for a short term rental is on! I will update you on that once we find one as well...
First picture of many...our lot....
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