house news

at our meeting on Friday with the NNHC, we got a bit of good news. They decided that they would open up the new lots to us, so now instead of just the lousey 5 to choose from, we had about 15 - which also means that we could also have whichever floor plan we wanted. . After all the frustration of the previous week, all the heartache and the second guessing, we thought we had it all figured out as we walked into the office, only to be turned on our heads again.

so we still decided that we liked the Dover plan (one we hadn't even concidered before) over the Evanston (our original choice) and it was really really tough deciding which lot we wanted the most. we had driven out there on Thursday and really studied out the 5 lots and thought we knew what would work for us out of those 5, so to suddenly have so many more options took us quite by surprize. The new lots were so many different sizes as well - the 5 were about 11,ooo sq. ft. - but the new ones ranged all the way up to almost 19,000. We decided on a mid range size about 14 -15,000, but as a third choice we picked one of the small ones just in case the prices (which we don't know yet) were too high.

and there is still a last catch - we still haven't gotten final approval of our loan from USDA - mostly because we just bought another auto - but also because we had to sign a paper saying that I was not going to be working this year (since I did last year, and that is reflected in our tax return) and mail that back in.

we thought we were third in line so far, but the second family thinks that they might want to build in Nibley instead, so as soon as we get approved that puts us second, not that it really matters anymore since they opened everything up. there is only 1 other Dover house built and that is in Nibley --- we tried to see inside it, we went and knocked on the door, but nobody answered, so we still have no idea how it actually looks, just seen the floor plan on paper - and that is a little frustrating, since we actually walked thru 2 Evanston houses, both of which were slightly modified.