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Megiddo:
Sweet deal! :D

JamminR:
Builder(seller) replied quickly today.
Without even talking to him, or knowing anyone who's worked with him, he's a money grubbing ***<I'll censor myself>***.
After several calls back and forth from the realtor, who then would go and fight the builder's representative, we're getting much of our list done, but not for our original offer price.
Not too bad really, only $2k more.
*sigh* That still doesn't account for the fact we're spending much more than the 'this price would be easy' houses we'd been looking at over the past year.
None of them 'fit' us though. This one does, and due to our list of addons, even more will.

We fax the final acceptance signatures to the realtor tomorrow.

Though I know God (yes, I'm gonna get religious here) has us in His hands all through this... I continue to see minor miracles on this process.
One such miracle happened tonight. My wife and I are going to be making a photo journal as the house gets more and more completed.
On our first trip to take pictures tonight after work, another car pulls up with an elderly looking man and woman. (GO AWAY, IT'S MINE!!) He gets out and starts eyeing it.
My pride gets the better of me (GET OFF MY CLAY MUD LAWN!!!) and I say "What do you think of my soon-to-be-new house?"
He says "Are you buying it?" My wife and I (still being quite friendly and joking of course) say "Yes, we've made the offer, and intend to send in the final signatures of acceptance tomorrow.
In further speaking, I find out that this man is the guy that does the telephone, coax(cable), and in cases like mine where I'm adding on, Cat 6 RJ45 for all living areas and surround for the living room. He then says "let's go in, show me where you want it all"
His poor wife was asleep in the car 30 minutes later when we got through.

I come to find out that this guy knows the builder, and isn't surprised that my wife and I had such a difficult time getting our addons at a reasonable deal.

Besides the little things like that which have come up and clicked into place, my wife showed me tonight that though the house we're buying is close to $30k more than the one we originally offered.. interest rate we locked into (and can still go down/relock once) will save us $50 a month in mortgage payment. We're getting more house for less.

God has a timeline for us all.

JamminR:
The contract has been accepted.

We're the proud new owners of two houses.
One still for sale. I updated the first post with an image of our house now.

Attached are pictures of our house under construction, and an example of one finished (from it's front)

MrPresident:
Crazy!

Congrats and all that!

How long until the new house is finished and you and your wife can move in? I bet you are excited =)

JamminR:
Closing is set for July 21st.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked.

Wife's excited that we threw in to the contract getting to pick all the colors. (I'm happy too, but, colors/design aren't my forte')
Most all of the homes in the neighborhood were put up with no buyer input (I'm sure there probably had to be a few, but not many).
We got it early enough. My wife calls me at work yesterday and says "Hey, we get to pick brick, shutters and siding color too!"
I'd expected to get to pick cabinets, floor tile, counter tops, etc, but not exterior.

I'm happy we got the ethernet and speaker wiring. Sure, I have wireless too, but there's nothing like the speed and reliability of wired.
As I work for a company that does government contract work occasionall, the security factor is a plus too.

Ha. My wife just sent out an email with some pics to family and friends. She makes the joke
"The house needs a little work, but it has potential."

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