My family and I are relocating back to Northeast Ohio from North Carolina due to a new role with my wife's employer. We started looking at homes in the area based on where we would like to land and kept finding ourselves disappointed with pre-existing homes. My last trip to Ohio to look at homes with our realtor was left me wanting. Houses looked great in pics, but in person, each house had that one compromise that we didn't want to make or there was something odd going on with the area, or the house just needed to much work to have what we wanted.

My wife is assigned a realtor in Ohio who actually turned us onto an investment property with Ryan Homes, however, the house won't be available for possession for a year or two?! Not sure why our realtor even brought it up, but she did ask if we would be interested in building and that Ryan has a "quick start" program. So we asked our realtor to get us all the details because our mortgage will be serviced by our relocation company. …show more content…
So I called Ryan Homes and got the ball rolling. I gave our SR the details about our relocation, what we were looking for, and our absolutes in what we wanted in a house. She quickly came back with estimates for three models: Florence, Venice, and the Milan. The Florence was a bit small in the bedroom department. The Milan is a great home, great space, and floor plan. But it was putting us at the top end of the budget and that was before flooring and Guardian were decided. The Venice came in as the winner. Great floor plan, nice size bedrooms, the square footage we wanted in a house and a few other