Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Home sweet home

So Rob and I are building a townhouse. For those of you that dont know the story here it is....
About a year ago we wanted to start looking for houses that are not built yet like in a community. We found this one just driving by ft. union but they were almost all built and alittle out of our price range and the guy there told us about their other communtiy down by state street in sandy so we went and looked at it and it was perfect and it wasn't going to be built for about 6 months. Well they keep pushing the date.
Well Rob got really sick of how his boss way treating him so he started looking for a new job and a kid on his paintball team had a dad that owns his own shop, and he was LDS so that was a bonus. The only thing was it was in bountiful and it didnt make sence to live in sandy when both our jobs were more north. He went back and forth with this decision for about a week. He finally decided to take the job and put his two weeks in. So i was bumbed because we found that house and really liked it. So we started looking north for another community that was like the other one. I was looking all day at work and nothing seemed to fit, and 15 min before I had to leave work I found this house on ksl and printed out the specs. I showed rob when he picked me up and we decided to go look at least.
When we got there it seemed cute and alot of it is not built yet. We went in and found out all the specs and it seemed really good. This is just like the other one we wanted in sandy. So we went home and thought about it, then that saturday we took my mom and brian to go see (she liked it because i would be closer to her) so we put a deposit in and had a week to make a final decision. The next saturday we made it offical. These townhomes are better then the ones in sandy because they are cheaper for one and they came with alot of stuff that we would have upgraded in the other one, and my uncle DJ is able to be our agent so he gets something out of it too.
It will be done around the end of July. We are so excited to have our own house and a backyard so twix can run around. You wouldnt think he needs to run around beacuse he is so small but he runs around the appt. with the cat all the time and he is fast (he can out run me). We have already had our design center meeting and picked out everything.
Rob loves to go visit the site every week and take picture of the progress, its fun. So this is our foundation #112. There will be more photos following the next couple months.


P.S. Rob never took the job he ended up staying because the son who is the manager convinced his dad the owner to retire and he got a raise. But we figure it was for the better, this house is better decision its still only 15 min from work and I am closer to my mom so we can see her more.

1 comments:

Joy said...

congratulations on the townhome. It's a fun process, as you know from past experience...but luckily this time you will get to move in at the end, yeah!! so it has a yard, that is nice, what about a basement?