Week 3 - Flooring Meeting

This week was mainly spent pre-planning for our flooring meeting and reading up as much as we could on these early stages of building with Ryan Homes. (The blogs by fellow Ryan Homes builders are so helpful!  They are actually why we decided to start our own - we hope to be as helpful for someone else along with documenting our journey for our family.)  We revisited the model Mozart in our community to get ideas, and we traveled a bit to take a look at a nearby Strauss model in another community.  We, of course, also scoured the blogs to check out some of the choices others have made.

By the time we met our flooring lady (who was phenomenally helpful, pleasant, and patient!) at our flooring meeting, we had a good amount of choices either chosen or in the works, but we also still had a lot left to explore.  We were surprised at how difficult some of the smaller choices we hadn't given much thought to were.  Once you think about living with the choices for a lifetime, and once you see just how many good choices there are, it can be hard to make a decision!  One unexpected bonus (especially after reading a lot of the other blogs) - we had budgeted for level C hardwood in the basement foyer and the entire first floor.  We fell in love with one of the flooring samples that was actually done as a large area of the showroom floor, and when it came time to finalize the numbers, we found out it was actually level B (we had assumed C given the size of the planks and the overall look), so we ended up saving money by surprise at our flooring meeting!

We finally heard from our NVR guy via email on Wednesday (we had been told by our sales rep the Wednesday before that we would probably get a call from him within the next 24-48 hours, so as a week went by, we were starting to worry a bit).  He said he was going to overnight us a package with their good faith estimate and all of the many other important papers to sign.  We still have not received the package, but we've been reassured by our sales rep that this is a particularly busy time of year, and since we are not closing until May and have very good credit, they aren't really worried about us right now.

Last but not least, our Guardian meeting is set for Friday.  We've already chosen what we want from them, and it is nothing elaborate, so at least that one should be easy!