It feels like the honeymoon phase: you've selected your favourite lot, the home model you'll have built, and made your personalizations that are going to truly make your home unique. But before your brand new home starts going into the ground, there are a number of steps that need to be taken care of first. You've already signed all of the purchase documents and other legalities of the deal, and now it's time to get some other items done before the stakes mark the dirt.
It all began with the exciting decision to build a new home. You've spent the last several months going through paperwork, selecting a lot and a model, making colour and finishing selections, and then the whole construction process came along.
It may seem like an ideal situation to hire a house sitter to watch over your home while you're on vacation. After all, it's costly to put your pets in a kennel, and unnerving to leave your home dark for days, perhaps weeks at a time. However, hiring someone to keep watch over your beloved pets, your personal belongings, and ultimately the one place you are supposed to feel safe can also be a bit unnerving.
Your home is the single most important, and largest investment you'll likely make in your lifetime. In most cases, home buyers need to obtain a mortgage to buy a home since the vast majority of us don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay cash for a house. But since a mortgage is a legal contract, some of the related terms can be very confusing. You won't want to sign mortgage documents without fully understanding the terminology.
At Augusta Homes, we take the time to get to know you, because building a home you'll love is just as important to us as it is to you. That's also why we make sure everyone on our team shares that same passion. So, we thought you might like to get to know us a little better, too.
In our second Behind the Scene With The Augusta Team post, we'll introduce you to our Senior Estimator, Clayton Thomas!
Now nearly two years old, the west Calgary community of Harmony is still fresh and in its infancy. This quiet, serene community is the city's only new master-planned area on the west side designed to create a true country recreational setting. Quaint streetscapes complete with ranch-style front yard fencing finish off this ambience and set the tone for an upscale, peaceful neighbourhood.
