So i thought i would create a blog chronicling our adventures building a new house. The builder of the house is Mercedes Homes, the area is north Austin, close to Mopac and Parmer. I will try to bring everyone up to speed as we go along but the basics are...
We have picked a floor plan and a lot that we are happy with.
We have an elevation and the structural options (upstairs deck - rock on!) we want.
We have been going to the design center to pick out what are seemingly endless options of stuff.
And unfortunately we have been hearing the word "no" a lot on what would seem to be simple requests (apparently Sliding Glass Doors are persona non grata in the Mercedes world of homes, despite the fact that they were on the model home we first looked at and our salesperson said it would be no problem at all).
So today was another night at the design center (every thursday is open night, for 2 hours). We finished up our electrical options - 5.1 sound in 2 rooms, outdoor speakers on the patio. Sweet! Changed tile in both the master bedroom and 2nd upstairs bedroom, both for the better in my opinion - thanks to Morty! We also found out that it was no problem to set up the utility room to have stacked washer and dryers, so that should make that room a bit more usable. And at no cost, i almost went into shock.
We also met the other salesperson for our area. Her name is Robin and she rocks. So much better and more helpful than our current guy, Mike. Mike's standard answer for everything seems to be no, without even putting any effort into working on our behalf. We just met Robin and she's is already willing to go check on changes we would like. Like night and day.
So the other surprise we got tonight was that 50% of all upgrades had to be paid for upfront. Like today. Never heard this before and neither had Morty. Guess Mike left that out as well. Hmmmmmmmm. Well, unfortunately i forgot my checkbook so too bad.
I think that's enough for my first ever blog post. We have another appointment on Thursday...should be interesting...
