This past week has been pretty much all about the house. We officially decided to go for it last Thursday. We got our prequalification last Wednesday, met with the sales rep for that location on Thursday to go over the standard base package for the house at the price of 159,900 and on Thursday we put in a non-binding offer, which we changed on Friday before we heard back. Our offer was really aggressive. The house right now is listed for 163,900 ($4000 for landscaping in the back) so we offered $170,000 and they pay 3% closing costs, we want a stainless steel fridge, air conditioner, and $6100 credit to the design center. They came back with all of that for $171,000! We were so surpised! The counter offer was WAY better than we expected. After some more talk last night we decided to up our price and ask them to cover all of closing costs because that would be an extra $4000 we would need to come up with. We have a meeting Thursday to put in an official offer and put down our earnest money...then we can finally make an appointment to go to the design center and pick out all of our stuff for the inside! We've submitted everything to process our loan application, which we've hit a little snag on which way we are going to go, but other than that we are on our way to being homeowners this summer!
Mike and I are both so excited! We keep saying how we don't know how we are going to last 5 months while we wait for it to be built! It will be so awesome to live so close to our friends and I'm so freakin' excited to be able to pick out all the inside stuff! I'm so glad we decided to go this route. It's definitely the "safe" route and I am OK with that! Now if only we could talk the sister-in-law's family to move next door...:)
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