Building Our Strauss Townhome

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 received our weekly construction update from our PM last night.  They are framing away on the house, and are currently working on the sec...

We got an email from our sales rep yesterday with a picture of our exterior colors.  In our community, the exterior options are all selected...

We got our construction update on Friday, and drove out to see the progress yesterday.  Last week our underground plumbing was complete, and...

As I'm anxiously awaiting our next weekly update from the PM to see what was done this week despite the snow, rain, and overall bad weat...

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...

Well, we already changed our mind on one of the things in our house after the pre-construction meeting, and our project manager accommodated...

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 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 had our meeting with TAC today to pick our tile and flooring.  This was the meeting we were most looking forward to and also most anxious...

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...