My life was like a whirlwind.
I was married in October, found out we were moving from Washington state to Minnesota about a week later, went on a house hunting trip compliments of his new company Thanksgiving weekend, then we moved in December.
The relocation package assigned us a Realtor named Nita who I will someday write a review on. ( She was awesome ) and we were given four days to quote find a house.
Knowing absolutely nothing about the state of Minnesota other then the most freezing unimaginable winters (we flew in the day after Thanksgiving in 2010 which they claim was the worst winter ever ). Anyway, I could write a book about the painful cold here, but you people from Minnesota already know about them while others simply could not possibly understand.
My husband and I had absolutely no clue what city whatsoever to want to reside in, so we saw no less then 100 houses within 4 days basically all over the place. ( No joke )
We had a major list with stars and notes on each house we looked at and we had a list with the top 5 homes that we personally liked the most. Well, the model home in Plymouth by Hanson builders was both of our number 1 choice having different second and third choices from each other..
Hanson homes have the most amazing functional and spacious floor plans. We worked with one of the builders reps named Lisa who was so helpful and was always quick with an answer to the many questions that we had. Our Realtor wrote up an offer and it was accepted. We actually had the same plan built on a lot that overlooked a really cool large pond with fountains, so we had the opportunity to pick all of the paint colors, granite, carpet or any additional upgrades we were interested in. Their person who was in charge of that was Nancy and she had tremendous helpful ideas on coordinating the right granite with tile, color choices etc.. They definitely have professional people who seem to truly care about their jobs that work for them.
We did see many Hanson floor plans and they are actually pretty similar in many ways from the other. My conclusion for that is this. They have really perfected their floor plans so why change a good thing too much.
If your thinking about buying a home, I would highly recommend you setting up an appointment to walk through them and see them for yourselves. They pay attention to detail and although there were a few little problems in the end, they took care of it right away to our satisfaction.
The only reason why I did not give Hanson builders five stars was during the final walk thru, it was really not as clean as we would have expected. We did mention this and we were told that they just routinely do a spot clean. So here we move into this beautiful home and we had to do a deep clean prior to the actual move. That part was a little disappointing.
But the end result, we are absolutely thrilled with each and every Hanson floor plan and we felt like all of the pieces fit together with all of the help from those who worked with us. read more