Where does time go? 1 Year anniversary

I begun this journey of buying a new home. Sorry, correction Building a new home, over 1 year and a half ago. We started off looking at pre-existing homes of course, but we couldn't really find what we were looking for. At least not within our price range and locale.

What were we looking for? Nothing exotic. Like, a bathroom with a golden toilet seat or anything. Although, I've got a post on something related I installed for about $25 off amazon and it's waaaaay better then sitting on solid gold. But that's another topic. We wanted a first floor bedroom with it's own bathroom, and we still wanted a separate hallway/guest bathroom. Sounds reasonable right? Basically, my Mom didn't want to have to share her bathroom with guests and we didn't want to have to send guests upstairs/downstairs to use the facilities.

In comes Ryan Homes and the Avalon. And the rest is history! Part of what made the daunting task of building a home so scary was that we didn't know anyone with firsthand experience, as we'd both only ever bought pre-existing houses. And when we begun looking into some of the online reviews regarding Ryan Homes, they didn't have the best reputation.

As I've mentioned, part of what helped us take the plunge and also avoid some of the pitfalls of new home building was the wealth of online blogs and resources. Thus, it felt only right to sort of give back and document our own experiences along the way. So here we are. 1 year later. And I've fallen off like a 90's boy band!

But it's on my 2018 goals list to rectify that mistake. One bad post at a time. So keep an eye out and feel free to ask questions or make comments!