THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS...

Well, we are finally (I think) days away from starting to build our house!! Now I didn't say how many days, but we are close! I thought it might be fun to blog about our house building experience. To get you up to speed, in February we talked with my Grandma about purchasing land from her in order to build a house. At the end of April our land was approved for rezoning from Agriculture to Residential. In June we had house plans drawn up and in August received a bid from our builder for those house plans. At the end of August we threw away the first house plans and drew up new ones. Needless to say we simplified without losing space and we fell in love with our new house plans and also the new bid price(which we received last week). The beginning of October we started applying for permits and continued our banking loan, which had actually been started in June. Today we meet with our builder to sign the contract with him, tomorrow I will go and apply for our last permit (building; we have already received the other permits needed) and we will sign our approved construction loan and give final papers needed for the banking side sometime this week...