Building Our Strauss Townhome

We got our weekly construction update this morning, and despite some snow, the crew made good progress on our home this week. They installed...

After being gone on work travel all last week, I was so happy to get our weekly update on Friday telling us that we would be able to go insi...

We received our weekly construction update this morning.  We have been having horrible weather in this area, so I wasn't really expectin...

We drove out to look at the progress on the house for Valentine's Day.  W hen we pulled up,  w e were pleasantly surprised to see that ...

We drove by the house this weekend to see the progress.  We have foundation walls now and underground plumbing is supposed to go in this we...

Last night my husband and I received our first construction update email from our PM.  By the end of the day today, all of our foundation wa...

Since I only did a relatively quick post after our pre-construction meeting, I want to go through some of the questions we asked our PM duri...

We had our pre-construction meeting today, and we found out that they broke ground already and put in the footers. We thought that construct...

We have our pre-construction meeting on Monday morning, and we are very excited to finally meeting our project manager.  We're hoping th...

We just got an email from our sales rep that construction will begin on our house in the next two weeks!  We are working with our sales rep ...

We met with our Ryan Homes sales rep and completed the 30 day change request for all of our options.  Our meeting only lasted about a half h...

We met with Guardian Technologies to make our low voltage wiring selections.  Our Guardian Specialist was not pushy about adding all of the ...

Within a week of signing the purchase agreement, we had to meet with NVR Mortgage to get approved for our mortgage. You have to meet with th...

About a month after our first visit, we went back to view the model home at Greenbelt Station again after viewing other houses in the area. ...

Since I couldn't find many blogs out there about building Ryan Homes's Strauss model when my husband and I were trying to make a dec...