Clear away!

They really began clearing today! This is a picture we took from the "driveway" looking onto the lot(Click on it to see it better). The three trees clumped in the middle are about where the living room will be and are about 1/2 way across the lot. It is really difficult to get any kind of perspective from this, but it will help us have a comparison point as more is cleared.

Closed

We closed on Friday! We went to the lot on Saturday and helped my parents dig up lots of great plants for them to take home before they were bulldosed. Thor, our contractor, came out and I showed him what stays and what goes, and he passed on the word to the guy with the excavator. He comes on monday to start ripping things apart. We are on schedule for the lot to be ready for the house to come by the end of the month. Move in should be the first week in November!!! Pictures of the progress to come this week.

Closing

We close on Friday @ 1:00!

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Closing

We have an appraiser ready to go and we should close on our lot by the end of this week. Update to follow! BTW, Here is our official floor plan!

LDS Family Services

Just to clarify on Shiree's post, I will be working for LDS family services in ADDITION to my full time job. It should only be a few hours a week, but will bring in some extra money, help some people out, and let me work with some people that are not on meth.

So, I'm excited because Lance is going to have a job with LDS Family Services as a Therapist!!! The closest office to Boone is in Charlotte, so they are hiring him to work with people in this area! The pay is decent, but the best news is that he can do the sessions at the church (because they don't pay him, they pay LDS Family Services) so, no rent! And he can take insurance!! It's pretty exciting! Now he just needs some clients. 

We got the loan!

Yup, we're approved and ready to go. Now we just wait on the Health Department, get an appraisal, and get busy on the house! Updates to follow!

Lot update

Thor, our contractor, has been out to the site with the grading guy, and they are ready to go. We are just waiting on the helth department and the bank. We "should" know if we are "go" with the mortgage on monday (remember, we are already good to go on the construction loan, the bank just wants both approved before we can close.) We'll post an update tomorrow if we hear anything. So, this is the week we will know we can do this thing, for sure! We're not really worried about the septic test, all the lots in the neighborhood have passed.

1st step- Yes!

We've been approved for our construction loan, and we're just waiting from the mortgage department. We should hear from them by Friday! Almost ready to start!!!

Lance gave Alex a haircut! Isn't he cute? 

Here is the proposed site plan (done by your's truly). Click on it to see the larger image. 

Home building update

OK, it's been awhile, so here is where we are at. The guy counter-offered on the lot (lot 1) and we accepted. We put $1000 earnest money down to hold the lot while we get it tested for the septic system. If it passes (and they all have in the neighborhood), the lot is ours to build on. Thanks to Ryan Call for helping me dig the 4 three foot deep holes for the test (saving me oodles of $$$). Thor (our contractor) has told us that we are good to go on the floor plan we wanted (see the post with the plan), which is really exciting. We will find out on Monday the 11th if we are approved for the loan. I have flagged the property to show the holes, the driveway, and the proposed location of the well and our house. If we are approved on Monday for the construction loan and the mortgage, we will get a loan commitment letter to the seller, and will begin clearing the lot in the next few weeks. If all goes well, we should be in by or around Thanksgiving. Whew! That was a mouthful (or a finger-full). Tune in next time for information if we got the loan. Your prayers are greatly appreciated.
-Next blog will show the proposed lot layout.

We made an offer

We made an offer on a lot yesterday. We should know by Monday evening if he accepts. If not, we will still get the lot, just pay more (so pray he accepts.) It is lot one in the same neighborhood. Nice lot. Pics to follow when we officially get it.

We got some sad news today. Our lot that we were hoping to buy, lot 5--see photo at bottom of blog-- was purchased recently. So although we were ready to buy it and get going on this house, we've got to start looking for land again. Oh well. It's been for sale for 5 years and right before we decided to buy it someone else did, so it must not be the lot that we need to get. There must be something better out there, I just hope we can find it soon!!  

Floor plan

This is the floor plan of the house we're looking at building. As with all the other pics, click on it to see a larger version.

Jenny's all ready for her swim lessons!!! 

Princess Tinkerbell!!! 

Jenny turned 4 on the 2nd of June!!! We forgot to post some photos, but here they are! We had a great party, and a great day! 

You can see that we love Diamond Lil's show.