When we first started this path, we were going to be in one floor plan (the smallest, and most inexpensive in the community), and it hadn't even been built yet. We picked our finishes, and we're so excited to be closing June 30th. One day, while driving by the home site, we saw that the yard was going to be a hill, and a complete waste as a play area for kids. We were on a corner lot, which was great, but the yard was a deal breaker! We emailed the sales rep, letting her know that we had to have something change about it, and waited on her response.
While waiting for her answer, on a whim, I looked at the mls, just to see what else was out there, and I found that one of the standing inventory houses in our community was reduced to just 5k over the home we were under contract with (that's about 20 dollars a month in our payment). We immediately called the sales reps and said, "how do we get THIS house?". We went in and talked with them and the builder was totally fine with it. We now had a bigger house, with a much better floor plan, and a flat, albeit small, yard, and it had all the finishes we had chosen for our initial house. Our closing date was June 3rd.
Fast forward a few days later and we get a phone call from our finance guy, asking us if we'd be interested in letting the builder pay our the remainder of our lease..."uh, yes please!". He also payed us the difference between our rent and our mortgage payment for one month, so that starting our house payments, would be more like starting a month later. Now our closing is May 2nd.
For those of you that know me personally, you know that I'm a worrier. I want to do things right, and sometimes I get so bogged down with nerves and concern that I can't see the gift being handed to us. If we had gotten our offer approved for the original house we put an offer in on (they countered with the one that hadn't been built, so that they wouldn't have standing inventory on that model), we would not have been able to get out of it to be put in this home. If our offer last year on an older, smaller, and overpriced home, had been accepted right away (the seller contacted our agent a month later and asked if we wanted the house for our offer price) we wouldn't be moving into this dream home. If we'd moved last year to a new rental and payed an extra 600 dollars a month to do so, we wouldn't have any money saved up to be able to buy. There were so many factors that went into this becoming a possibility, and seeing God's hand work in our lives to allow us to have this, has been surreal. I tried so many times to tell him that we weren't deserving of this home, and that he must be shutting doors, but no matter what happened, he would open another door. I've never seen his hand work quite so prominently in our lives before, and I'm in shock and awe over it.
Thanks for listening to this nice, long spiel. I hope that you'll continue to come back to see what we do with this gorgeous little present!
xoxo
Bird
It's so cute! I can't wait to see inside!
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