New Pics!! We are really close now! PM said Drive will be poured next week!



Master Bathroom



  



Master Bath





Bedroom





Kitchen Floor




Kitchen




Kloee hiding in the background





The Loft!!





This will be the theater room!!



Kloee Testing out the new Theater Seats! Guess they are comfy!







New Pics Tonight

Sorry everyone... Finals kicked my but this semester!!! I will get new pics up tonight!! The house looks great and we cant wait to get in there.. They moved our closing date up from the 16th of June to the 10th of June!! We are excited about that also...

Ok.. Off to work....  Pics Tonight!!

Intrest Rate Locked @ 4.5%!!!!!!

We are so happy that the rates came back down! When we first started looking at homes the rate was 4.4%. Once we decided to build the rate rate went up to 4.6% and climed as high as 4.9%!
This is great news as its one more thing I can cross off the worry list..

Concrete is poured in Basement and Garage>>

PM is going to let us know on Monday if we can lock our rate!!!! I haope he says its ok because I have a feeling the rates are goin to climb again....

Roof is on!!

They are moving so fast we cant keep up with pictures!!! Thank GOD this semester ends in a few weeks!!!

Back again... Alot has happened since our last post

Im adding a pic from last Wednesday and a pic from this Wednesday.. Its crazy how fast they get things done!!!
Also....

We got a call from our PM saying they installed the wrong tub and that we needed to call them ASAP!!! We ordered the garden soaking tub and they put in the wrong code... We drove over to the house and found a Garden Whirlpool / Soaking tub instead of the plain old soaking tub we ordered.. This was one of the upgrades we really wanted but decided to skip due to the price.. I guess we can live with FREE!!!!

The package below ( Kloee ) has been keeping us away from the blog.....

 I think Capt. Morgan thinks Kloee is his baby.. He always lays wherever she is at.
The last pic just looks like she got her socks knocked off! 

Sorry for the lack of updates!!

They started digging last Wednesday and they got the Basement walls poured by Friday.. My wife had to get a closer look at the hole! I think its finally setting in that we are building a new home!

Pre-Construction Meeting

We meet our PM today.. His name is Brett Klauss and he was more than helpful during our meeting. Between Brett and Jean (Sale Rep ) I have to say this has been a great experience! Jean seems to always be availible and she always has an answer or gets an answer fast.
Now to the good stuff.... Brett was open to making a few changes and he didnt even charge me! I wanted to move a door in the basement over aprox 2 feet so I could fit our surround sound into the wall. I also wanted to have the recessed lights on multiple switches because half the basement will be a theater room and the other half will be a bar / hang out. He assured me that these would be taken care of and repeatedly told me to call him if I thought of anything else I wanted to move around!
Brett also confirmed our address and our groundbreaking day ( 30th )..
They both seemed to like the idea that I was starting a blog and both agreed to let me post their names during our home build. Its officially time for the fun part to begin.

Tomorrow is the big day!! Pre construction meeting at 2pm..

I didnt read alot about the pre-construction meetings other bloggers posted about. We are going in blind!! Its starting to feel like all of this is real!!

Pre-construction meeting on the 16th!!

Our PM called to set up a preconstruction meeting on the 16th. I was waiting for him to call as I had a few questions about our lot. We have a drainage ditch running down the length of our yard from front to back. I didnt see this when we signed due to all the snow! The ditch drops to about 3 feet deep and pretty much makes the left side of our yard unusable. After talking with our PM, he assured me he would level it out so our little one would have a yard to run around in. This is great news for us because we picked this lot for its size. Our lot is .33 of an acre and the other lot we liked was only .27. I know its not a huge difference but I would rather have the extra yard!

Approval Letter came today!! We are on schedule for ground breaking!

We got our Approval letter from NVR today..  We are ahead of the game as we already picked our carpet, upgrades, siding colors and guardain wiring.
We stayed with the standard carpet with upgraded padding. We also went with linoleum because we plan to put in ceramic and hard wood floors on our own.
One upgrade I would like to mention is the master bathroom tub upgrade. I decided to do this because it gives you a bigger tub with oval shape and  it also gives you an 80gallon hot water heater. This was a good deal for me as my wife and I get up around the same time a couple times per week.

So far our experience with NVR and Ryan Homes has been perfect! I had some serious reservations after reading some of the horror stories on the web. What I found was there were 30 -40 homebuilders who did not like thier experience or final product. On the positive side of things I found tons of people who were completely  happy with the product and professionalism they received. I would tell anyone that is thinking of building with Ryan Homes to talk to as many people as possible. What I found was a community of very happy Ryan Home owners and I am currently also part of that group.

I will continue to update our adventure as it plays out.  Feel free to ask if you have any questions pertaining to our new homebuilding experience. Let the ground breaking Begin!!

Building with Ryan Homes...

My wife and I decided to build with Ryan Homes after reading numerous blogs about the Ryan Homebuilding experience. We decided the "Florence" was the best option for us with our new addition who is 3 1/2 months old. We started this process a few weeks ago and we are just waiting to hear from NVR about financing. Hopefully we hear something next week so the groundbreaking can begin!
My wife and I will be posting pictures and our thoughts as the process moves along.