Getting closer...

Ok, so it's been a while since my last post.  We finally closed the sale of our house on June 8th, and since then we have been living in a rental house out in the country near Pittsboro, IN.  This is a good location since it isn't too far from my work, Lauren's school and the new house location.

So the day after we closed, I submitted my builder's application to the bank for the construction loan.  Later that day, I received an email from the bank that stated our builder could not be accepted due to something that came up in his credit check.  This was on a Friday, the next morning I decided to look up a builder on the internet that I had heard of and noticed they were building a house just down from our lot.  It looked like a well built home with quality materials and seemed to go up pretty swiftly.  I found their website and noticed right away that they offered financing through one of their prefered lenders and one of the lending options was a VA construction loan.  With Lisa being a Veteran of the Air Force, this was a no-brainer.  So I called, not expecting to actually talk to anybody, someone answered and invited us over to their model home in Brownsburg.  So I loaded up the girls and brought our house plans with us to talk to this guy.  After about 30 minutes of talking, he gave me a pretty solid estimate.

To say the least, the process of planning this house has become much more streamlined.  Our house plans were tweaked and re-drawn to fix some mistakes.  We had to make selections of everything from roofing to flooring.  Of course, we were almost ready to get started once before, so we had a very good idea of what we wanted.  The builder sent us to their prefered suppliers to make some of the selections such as, hardwood floors, tile, carpet, cabinets and lighting.  The suppliers that this builder uses are all local businesses and they have all been amazing to work with.

Currently we have a July 25th pre-construction meeting where we will meet the project manager and go over our selections one last time before construction begins.  Then we are scheduled to close on the construction loan on July 30th, so construction should begin shortly after that.

Here are the plans as they stand right now, with a few things still needing to be changed, nothing major.

Still Waiting...

So here we are, waiting for the closing of our current home to finally happen.  Our most recent closing date was yesterday, and yet again something came up and it had to be re-scheduled (for the 5th time!!!).  It's been almost 2 months since we accepted the offer on our house, to say we're OVER this circus act of a process would be an understatement. I'd love to say that we will be starting to build soon, but that is too hard to believe at this point.  We will just have to keep our hopes high, and wait, again...

Accepted Offer!!!

Hey,

Last weekend on Easter morning, we accepted an offer on our current home.  We just have to wait for the inspection and appraisal by the bank to pass.  Then we can close the deal!! 

As far as the new house, we recently finished the septic and site plan design.  So as soon as we get financing arranged for construction, we can get started.

Stay tuned...

Yesterday I met with our builder out at the lot, we determined the approximate location of the house, driveway and septic finger system. A soil scientist came out as well, he took samples and gave us a good idea of the location and direction of the fingers. This was a huge relief because we were concerned about the leach field taking over the entire backyard. There should be plenty of room for future projects like a pool or pole barn.

The next step is to hire a septic engineer. They will come out and survey the lot, determine the slope, location of the septic tank and leach field. This all needs to be done before permits can be applied for. It's good to get this stuff out of the way before we are ready to break ground.

Nothing to report with the house sale. It's been on the market for a week and nothing yet. We're keeping our hopes up to sell sooner than later.

Introduction

Hey all,

I decided this would be a good way to keep friends and family posted on the progress of our new home. I'm just giving this a test drive, seeing as though we are not close to building yet.  Therefore, in the mean time, I will post updates on how the new house planning and current home sale is going. 

For those of you not familiar with typical blogs, comments can be posted at the bottom of the page, and are encouraged :)



Here is the current view of our future home