Site Loader
Sell, Buy, Build!

Finally!

Well finally after about three weeks of waiting, we were getting ready to call the county offices to see what we could do to speed up this approval process and our land planner said he would go to the offices to see what he could do.  We were really starting…

Share
Waiting
Sell, Buy, Build!

Impatiently Waiting

We are impatiently waiting to be able to close on our construction loan so we can move forward with the new house build. The compromise we worked out with the neighbor who had built the edge of his barn on our property is taking a while to get through the…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

Pre-Construction Meeting

So the day finally arrived for our pre-construction meeting.  This meeting is pretty much an all day meeting.  The first half of the day you meet the field manager out at your lot and they get a feel for any problems or challenges there might be and they are supposed…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

And We’re All Sick

Well I figured this would happen, but was hoping it didn’t…we’re all sick.  My husband and Creative Kid have the worst of it which includes a pretty steady fever and upset stomach problems which leads to clean up problems for me as Creative Kid has not mastered the idea of…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

Moving!

So today was moving day!  Yay! We’ve worked our butts off to prepare for this day and I still don’t feel like I was fully prepared as my kitchen was not 100% packed.  We have done a lot though and because we are moving so early, our closing date has…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

House Inspection

So things have been moving fast with the house sale.  The inspection was scheduled quickly and came back with some things we sort of expected and some we did not and some that were just down right silly.  In the end the fixes are going to cost more than I…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

We Bought The Lot!

So we bought the lot!  It’s been a bit of a roller coaster, but in the end we got it done.  We had some confusion when we went to wire the money and with it being the week of Thanksgiving there were bank holidays and abnormal business hours that came…

Share
Sell This House!
Sell, Buy, Build!

We Got An Offer!

We got an offer on the house!  We’re so excited, but also nervous about the whole process.  We’ve been getting sporadic showings and one couple seemed close to making an offer, but went with a smaller, and therefore cheaper, house instead.  We had basically given up trying to sell the…

Share
Sell, Buy, Build!

Buying Land, Continued

So when I last left off on our land buying journey, we had sent a new offer to the seller for slightly less than asking price with the 45 day close.  We did so based on the statement we were given that the seller had already done the soils for…

Share
Buying Land
Sell, Buy, Build!

Buying Land

Let me tell you a little bit about our land journey.  We’ve always planned to build our dream home when we’ve sold our current house.  We wanted to move back to the country on about 3-5, mostly wooded, acres.  This has been our plan for years. We’ve been casually looking…

Share