When David & I first married we talked about one day building our home. We have gone through many house plan books and websites discussing what our dream home would be like. Even when we bought our first house in 2003 we knew it was temporary. We had a dream. Now this dream has by no means been a easy dream to believe in! We hoped that it would one day come true, but we had also prepared ourselves for the reality that it is a HUGE project that requires lots of time, money, and planning.
In 2008, we decided that our little home was much too little to hold Dave, me, & our 2 growing girls. It was time to make a decision. Do we just buy another house or do we follow our dream? We started looking for land and figured if we could find a lot that was exactly what we wanted then we would build, if now then we would buy.
Shopping for land is no easy task! We had our list of must's; it Must be in CK school for our girls, it MUST be big enough to have a yard, it MUST be in a good neighborhood. Dave also had "it MUST be able to have a basement", this was up for discussion of course. We looked at a TON of lots. Along the way we learned that while a septic is not a bad thing to have, above ground mound septics are super ugly & so not worth it :) Then one day I just happened to check for recent property listing & saw a lot that had just listed. It seemed to fit our must list so i drove over to check it out. It was PERFECT! I called Dave and told him he had to come look at the lot right away or I would be making an offer on my own. He looked, we loved it, made an offer & in April 2009 we became land owners.
We listed our house in May and it sold at asking price in 36 hours! We we're very lucky!
So now we have spent the last year & a half trying to turn our dream into reality.
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