Hi all.....I received a very helpful tidbit that prompts me to get this post up quick. I wanted to put it up last night, but I got frustrated since I was trying to figure out how to get a picture of the house plan that is in PDF form onto the blog!
Thank you John & Kathy for your input about more info needing to get up here!!
So we went to the property yesterday to check out the progress and the foundation is totally done!! Wow..it looks so cool! We took our picture where the front door would be and I'll be trying to take pictures at that same spot as the project rolls along!!
So now time to talk about the home!!
It is a 2257 square foot rambler. It has 3 bedrooms and a den. It will have a walk in pantry off the hall! It will have a huge master bedroom with a huge closet! It will have a nice fireplace! It has a pretty nice size utility room which should have quite a bit of cupboard space! We also plan to put one of those bench style seats, in place of the closet, with hooks for coats and drawers underneat for storage!!
Which by the way if anyone has any ideas as far as storage and cabinet layout for utility rooms or pantry's I sure would love to hear it! I've been trying to look stuff up on the internet so I can get some ideas!
Not sure what the style of home would be considered which is why I so badly wanted to get a picture of the house plan onto the blog, but I'm not techy enough to figure it out!
When we were out there yesterday to see the foundation is neat but to try to think it out dimensionally is odd. The garage seems so small compared to the plan and so do the bedrooms that are at the front of the house!! I'm anxious to see it all framed up!!
Tom will start the framing on Monday...how exciting!!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Many Thanks!
I wanted to make sure and say a big thank you to a couple people!!
Thanks Aaron Magula owner of Dream Builders....thanks for all of your help and letting Tom show up at your doorstep at short notice so many times to talk about changing the plans...doing up stuff for the city, etc. We appreciate all that you have done for us!! You are awesome!
LouAnne Burton with Banner Bank..you worked to get this through for us and for that we are so grateful!! Thanks for all your hard work!
I'm almost falling asleep I'm so darn tired...I need to go "nigh, nigh" as I am always telling Hannah!!
Thanks Aaron Magula owner of Dream Builders....thanks for all of your help and letting Tom show up at your doorstep at short notice so many times to talk about changing the plans...doing up stuff for the city, etc. We appreciate all that you have done for us!! You are awesome!
LouAnne Burton with Banner Bank..you worked to get this through for us and for that we are so grateful!! Thanks for all your hard work!
I'm almost falling asleep I'm so darn tired...I need to go "nigh, nigh" as I am always telling Hannah!!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
OK...I'm slackin'!!
Friday the 20th..we finally signed our huge stack of paperwork...loan stuff...title stuff...etc. etc.
Monday the 23rd...it's technically official!!! We are the proud owners of a bank note on a half acre of land that will have a 2257 sq. foot home built on it!!
It's real...it's done....praise God & praise Jesus...thanks to all who prayed for us!! We are so thankful for the support!
On Monday they poured the concrete for the footings??? Not sure of the lingo...anyhow...they were taking the forms off the concrete today...and Tom was set to snap lines tomorrow afternoon and frame on Friday, BUT.....
we need some more dirt for fill and we can't get it until Monday...so they will now officially start the framing process on Monday which is when Tom has the lumber drop scheduled first thing in the morn!!
Wow...how exciting...
we had a cabinet guy come in and talk to us about what we need for the place..we are excited to
get a bid from him!
After much internal deliberation and a few polls we took...Tom decided his new business name for his framing company would be "RIVERVALLEY FRAMING, INC." He likes landmark type names...he chose this over "RESURRECTION FRAMING, INC."
Tom is very excited and we are looking foward to seeing the progress...Melissa has cleared off a 2 GB SD card for these next few months of picture taking!
Anyhow...more later...I'll try not to slack anymore!
Friday the 20th..we finally signed our huge stack of paperwork...loan stuff...title stuff...etc. etc.
Monday the 23rd...it's technically official!!! We are the proud owners of a bank note on a half acre of land that will have a 2257 sq. foot home built on it!!
It's real...it's done....praise God & praise Jesus...thanks to all who prayed for us!! We are so thankful for the support!
On Monday they poured the concrete for the footings??? Not sure of the lingo...anyhow...they were taking the forms off the concrete today...and Tom was set to snap lines tomorrow afternoon and frame on Friday, BUT.....
we need some more dirt for fill and we can't get it until Monday...so they will now officially start the framing process on Monday which is when Tom has the lumber drop scheduled first thing in the morn!!
Wow...how exciting...
we had a cabinet guy come in and talk to us about what we need for the place..we are excited to
get a bid from him!
After much internal deliberation and a few polls we took...Tom decided his new business name for his framing company would be "RIVERVALLEY FRAMING, INC." He likes landmark type names...he chose this over "RESURRECTION FRAMING, INC."
Tom is very excited and we are looking foward to seeing the progress...Melissa has cleared off a 2 GB SD card for these next few months of picture taking!
Anyhow...more later...I'll try not to slack anymore!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Finally an Answer!!
Hi all....here's the latest......(drumroll please)
Looks like we WILL BE BUILDING A HOUSE soon!!! WOO HOO!!! We are so very excited to say the least!
LouAnne spoke with Tom tonight at 6pm to let him know that the underwriters have approved everything now for sure and that she would be emailing Stewart Title to get us an appt for Tues or Wed to sign papers!!
This call was after a call on Tue evening at 8pm letting us know that she is still working on it...then she called yesterday evening to let us know it was finally going back to underwriting with the file complete and we would hear the answer today. She actually called us!
The first thing Tom did was to call the concrete guys to let them know they can begin to build the forms at least, but wont be pouring until we have signed papers, by my request!
We have lots to do now....but so very excited and ready for the challenge, and so very happy that Tom is going to build a house!! Josiah keeps saying "Syah help dada build a house!" We keep telling him that Mama & Josiah are going to help Dada build us a house!! How awesome!!
Thank you to everyone who has been praying with us for the best outcome that God would have for us!! We of course were partial to a yes answer, but were prepared for anything knowing that God has our best interest and a bigger picture in mind!
Take care all.....lots more to come..Tom says to me "Now we can keep putting stuff on the BLOG!" I just need to figure out how to make a really cool blog like I've seen out there!! I'm just learning so maybe you'll see changes to our blog soon!!
Looks like we WILL BE BUILDING A HOUSE soon!!! WOO HOO!!! We are so very excited to say the least!
LouAnne spoke with Tom tonight at 6pm to let him know that the underwriters have approved everything now for sure and that she would be emailing Stewart Title to get us an appt for Tues or Wed to sign papers!!
This call was after a call on Tue evening at 8pm letting us know that she is still working on it...then she called yesterday evening to let us know it was finally going back to underwriting with the file complete and we would hear the answer today. She actually called us!
The first thing Tom did was to call the concrete guys to let them know they can begin to build the forms at least, but wont be pouring until we have signed papers, by my request!
We have lots to do now....but so very excited and ready for the challenge, and so very happy that Tom is going to build a house!! Josiah keeps saying "Syah help dada build a house!" We keep telling him that Mama & Josiah are going to help Dada build us a house!! How awesome!!
Thank you to everyone who has been praying with us for the best outcome that God would have for us!! We of course were partial to a yes answer, but were prepared for anything knowing that God has our best interest and a bigger picture in mind!
Take care all.....lots more to come..Tom says to me "Now we can keep putting stuff on the BLOG!" I just need to figure out how to make a really cool blog like I've seen out there!! I'm just learning so maybe you'll see changes to our blog soon!!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Still waiting!
OK...so we are to the point that we just want to know if this is a yea or nay! We took LouAnne copies of bank statements that she said was the last thing she needed and that the underwriter was waiting for this specifically and they would call us!
Every time we have had contact with her is because we call her and she doesn't call us, but when we do call she gives us something else she needs! Pretty annoying to say the least. I just hope this isn't how they do business normally should the loan go through and we have to deal with them on a monthly basis. Oh well...it'll all work out to what God would have for us!!
So today Tom called to see what's going on and she said that they tried to call Costco to verify that I will be returning to work and if I will work the same amount of hours that I did before I left and so Tom called her back to tell her who they should talk to about my hours, etc.
It really is hard to not get frustrated at that. They should just give us a list of the things they need instead of giving us something new every time we call!! They don't even call us to let us know what they need additionally!! Crazy!!
Take care all.....
Every time we have had contact with her is because we call her and she doesn't call us, but when we do call she gives us something else she needs! Pretty annoying to say the least. I just hope this isn't how they do business normally should the loan go through and we have to deal with them on a monthly basis. Oh well...it'll all work out to what God would have for us!!
So today Tom called to see what's going on and she said that they tried to call Costco to verify that I will be returning to work and if I will work the same amount of hours that I did before I left and so Tom called her back to tell her who they should talk to about my hours, etc.
It really is hard to not get frustrated at that. They should just give us a list of the things they need instead of giving us something new every time we call!! They don't even call us to let us know what they need additionally!! Crazy!!
Take care all.....
Monday, February 2, 2009
Still anxiously waiting!!
We are certainly anxious to say the least!!
We stayed home this weekend after planning to visit Tom's brother and his family because the bank needed some letters in regards to Tom's business not having any credit history.
As framers they only needed to buy nails for each project because most of the builders over here buy the lumber package and have it waiting for the framers to start with and the framers will order more as they go along.
Anyhow...Tom met with her on Saturday to get the letters to her and to talk to her about some business stuff.
She said she'd call on Monday, and she did which was a nice surprise because she is usually so busy she forgets to call us!! So she called to say she needed copies of the current state registration for the business to have on file. Tom took it to her right away!
Now we are waiting again to hear if it's a yea or nay! We are praying it's a yea, since we are so excited at the thought of building a home!!
If it's a nay.....all's I can say is what a big big bummer!! But we are trusting that God would have His way in all of this and that we can trust in His plans for us!!
I was reading today how the banking industry is still in shambles, pretty much, and they are so very strict lately about loaning to people. LouAnne has been great to work with this whole time and she has sounded pretty optimistic about the whole thing, but maybe it's because that's her job?? Not sure what to think....so we're just praying!!
We stayed home this weekend after planning to visit Tom's brother and his family because the bank needed some letters in regards to Tom's business not having any credit history.
As framers they only needed to buy nails for each project because most of the builders over here buy the lumber package and have it waiting for the framers to start with and the framers will order more as they go along.
Anyhow...Tom met with her on Saturday to get the letters to her and to talk to her about some business stuff.
She said she'd call on Monday, and she did which was a nice surprise because she is usually so busy she forgets to call us!! So she called to say she needed copies of the current state registration for the business to have on file. Tom took it to her right away!
Now we are waiting again to hear if it's a yea or nay! We are praying it's a yea, since we are so excited at the thought of building a home!!
If it's a nay.....all's I can say is what a big big bummer!! But we are trusting that God would have His way in all of this and that we can trust in His plans for us!!
I was reading today how the banking industry is still in shambles, pretty much, and they are so very strict lately about loaning to people. LouAnne has been great to work with this whole time and she has sounded pretty optimistic about the whole thing, but maybe it's because that's her job?? Not sure what to think....so we're just praying!!
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