Our story...

We just purchased our very first home!  A Palermo model with Ryan Homes in VA.  We are very excited... and nervous.

We have been renting all our lives.  Mostly because we have been moving around the country.  From Virginia to Las Vegas.  Back to Virginia, then to Los Angeles and now back to Virginia.  We thought if we owned a home, the freedom to pick up and go when a job arose would be lost.  We have been back in Virginia for almost a year and at the beginning of the year we started talking about what we are going to do.

The housing market in this DC metro area is insane and had just started to pick up.  So we thought maybe this is our chance.  Our lease is ending and let's start looking.  So we did look at resales in our area and we were going to be forced to downsize.  We widened our search and discovered an area where huge houses were the same price as these townhouses near us.  Luckily right now we have the freedom to go wherever we want, so we decided to look farther away.

We decided to look into new construction.  There was another builder that we thought about buying with before Ryan Homes.  But the salesperson at Ryan was so wonderful, she actually brought us around to Ryan.  She was great in that she kept in touch but didn't bug us.  Kept us posted on lots that were becoming available and then even met us at the Palermo model early one morning.

We fell in love with the Palermo and signed on the line!!