The prayers for discernment and wisdom continue. We have spent a weekend viewing existing homes, an afternoon driving up to meet the new construction builder, and another weekend traveling for our nieces' dance recital...everyone is tired of being in the car!
As common wisdom states: the perfect home does not exist. There is always a compromise. Of the existing homes we saw, none of them hit the mark. Perhaps we are too picky. However, we feel that we can be picky. Nothing is making us move, or we might have settled on one of those homes.
After talking to the builder, we learned a lot more about what our options are. The builder is in the process of selling the final plots of land and completing the community in our favorite small town. The town is land-locked by farmers who are highly unlikely to sell their land, so the town will not be expanding much more, if at all. We can afford to purchase a new build, but it will make finances tight the first year as we would have to put in landscaping (fence, grass, tree, etc.) within the first year of living there. We would get the floor plan of the home we really loved. We wouldn't have the money to finish the basement right away because the builder intentionally over-charges to finish the basement -he doesn't want to do that work...part of the perks of being a builder I suppose.
We started the process of "negotiating" what the home we would buy would be. Basically he talked to us about the features that we want construction-wise and then he sent us a formal bid of what each change or addition costs and how that effects the final price of the house. Then we can reply back any changes we want to make to that bid and he'll adjust it and send a new form back to us.
In the meantime we can keep house searching if we want, or we can decide that we don't want to go with the new build home after all. We really like the town and the neighborhood. The home we'd get would back to a small greenspace and be in biking distance from a park and a rec center for the kids. It's also 15 minutes from the big city for shopping. We've been praying for God lead us to the right choice. The compromise with this house is the price and timing. The house wouldn't be ready until the of the year. So does God want us to buy this home and trust Him with our finances, or let go of this home and trust Him bring us to another home, or not move at all? That's our current conversation with Him.
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