Looking at homes and hooters

Yesterday, Janey and I looked at a new development (new homes that is...). It's about 15-20 minutes out of town, so it had been missed by our previous searches. Our previous favorite housing development had been very close, but this new community offers so much more for just a short drive. It has large park areas, playgrounds and ponds. The people that we saw were very nice.

Old favorite neighborhood benefits: Small neighborhood, we could afford the largest floorplan in the neighborhood, huge yards. Downsides: Small neighborhood, we would be the biggest house in the neighborhood, huge yard to mow.

New favorite neighborhood benefits: Lots of open space, many parks and bike trails, the lots are more square rather than the football fields at the other neighborhood, we would be squarely in the middle of the house sizes (Helps for re-sale), the houses are nicer for equivalent money, the neighborhood will be growing for another 5 years, so the house values will be going up steadily for the next 5 years and who knows what happens after that, the houses have a 30 year structural warranty. Downsides: HOA(but only $200/year), commute (Around 20-25 minutes to drop Janey off and then another 10 minutes for me to get to work. It's far enough out there that Janey wants to carpool, but she could also carpool with her classmate that lives in the same neighborhood.). That's about it.

The 3 models we liked are: Burton, the Bromley, and the Landon III. All were very nice homes. We liked more, but by the time we would option them to where we would want them, they got expensive. Now all I need to do is hear back from my future boss on when I start, then M/I Homes can start.

After lookig at homes, we ate at the Hooters that's just 5-6 miles away from the neighborhood. I wish this restaurant had been around CA when we lived there. Good food, and delightful eye candy. This is the one we ate at.