Welcome to North Carolina

We were lucky to see lots of houses when we came down in October. The Parade of Homes was going on, so our Realtor was able to get us into many different houses in many different parts of town. We really lucked out. We only had a few hours on Thursday afternoon, all of Friday and Saturday to do the hunt. Then we were scheduled to come home on Sunday.

One of our stops on Friday included a model home in the South Lakes neighborhood. Our Realtor was long time friends with one of the builder representatives in the development.  She asked for 15 minutes of our time. I think we were there closer to an hour! She had four different houses on the Parade. Her first choice for us was not the one our Realtor had in mind, but once we got inside, the sparks started. Both of us really loved this house. We talked it out and decided to go ahead and pick a lot to build on and put together our purchase agreement. We came back the next day to do all the paperwork. Holy crap! We just bought a house! (well, contingent on the sale of our home in MN)

Here are pictures of the model and our lot as we saw it in October. Our house will be oriented the same as this first image. It's kind of hard to picture it turned around after walking through the model laid out this way. The house has 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a loft, screen porch and is just over 2000 sq ft.

Artist rendering:

Photos from the model home we visited:

Front of house with small porch.

Kitchen and living room

Entryway and stairway.  Doors on left are a coat closet.

Looking into master bedroom and into master bath.

Masterbath.  Peeking into walk-in closet.  Can't wait to soak in that tub!

Loft area.