Wednesday, March 2, 2011

We locked our rate at 4.75 for 120 days!

Makes me feel so relieved! Don't feel like watching interest rates every day! We have our guardian and electrical meeting Tuesday. On Monday I am touring my daughters new school! I am soooo indecisive it is driving me nuts,...I am changing my kitchen cabinets to cherry Bordeaux I think since I can't quit thinking about it, which means I have to change my hardwood floors to saddle to match...I think! So after reading all these blogs I am curious as to What deals or incentives you all got? I didn't even know you could put an offer in on a ryan home until I just saw someone was doing it? I knew you could try and bargain but not put offers and receive counter offers! Now I feel like I may not have got a good deal! Still so excited!!! We are now up to over 100,000 in upgrades.....OMGoodness....once in a lifetime! Keep telling myself that!

7 comments:

  1. We got a free morning room and free finished basement with our house.

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  2. We got a free finished basement but we negotiated to get the price of the finished basement applied towards a morning room instead, because we really wanted the morning room and didn't care as much about the basement, especially since they only finish half of it. (So we got about $5,500 off of our morning room). We also got $3,000 off our closing costs. I've learned that the newer the neighborhood, the more incentives you get. When they opened a new neighborhood right by us, they offered free morning room and free finished basement as well as upgraded appliances. Wish we could have gotten all of that!

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  3. Yes...I noticed that as well! A community near us was giving all of that as well and it was brand new! I didnt want to live in a bramd new community with all that construction though! We are in phase 3 of 4 in ours. I also think it depends if the houses are selling well or not.

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  4. We got NOTHING! After reading what everyone else got I wish we had tried harder. The problem was that we had a raffle for our lot. There were 6 families interested in 4 lots. So we really had no bargaining room. If we didn't buy the lot, they knew someone else would. I am so jealous of all of the incentives everyone got!

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  5. Did you pay extra to lock your rate for 120 days? We were only able to do a 60 day lock.

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  6. We got $17000 in incentives. We used $10k toward the morning room and since we didn't want a finished basement (yet) they took $7k off the base price.

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  7. Yes we had to pay 1% of loan amount. Was totally worth it to us!

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