First Meeting with Wayne Homes

First Meeting

We setup a meeting with a salesperson from Wayne Homes in Cygnet, OH. The salesperson that we met with was Kristi who was awesome! She was so nice and helpful and had a lot of great ideas. Our meeting started off with us touring the 3 models that they had on site, the models were beautiful and we specifically fell in love with the Covington model, unfortunately that house plan was out of our price range. After looking through the houses and knowing that the model's had the top of the line finishes which we could not afford, we sat down with Kristi in her office and discussed exactly what we were looking for concerning bedrooms, bathrooms, and our budget. We started off the meeting by drawing up a plan of the Hampton and going through some of the upgrades that we were looking to add in. After thinking about it for a while and deciding that the basement wouldn't provide me enough room for the "Man Cave" we expressed our concerns and told her that we really loved the Covington model and wish that we could afford that model and asked if she had anything that would fit within our budget that had a similar floor plan. Much to our surprise she had recently drawn up a floor plan for the Cedar Hill that had a similar main floor layout as the Covington!  Once we saw the floor plan we knew that was the one! I felt pretty bad because we had just spent about an hour going through the Hampton layout, luckily a lot of the things we added to the Hampton were not necessary for our new layout so going through adding a little bit of lighting and a couple of other changes went quickly. Kristi then provided us a hardcopy of our estimate and a paper which included the PPI costs that we would need to pay for, this list contained items like extra permits, site survey, driveway installation, running the water/sewer from the road into the house and a couple of other things. BAM! That's when we saw the price of the extras and I think the initial estimate was around 20k for the PPI items on top of the original house plan! Our hearts sunk but we had hope.

After leaving the office I criticized the PPI list and found that what they were estimating was quite higher than what I realistically thought we could complete the items for. I also called around regarding some of the permits/tap in fees and luckily those were also higher than what the village was going to charge us! Sigh of relief! We could move on to the next phase of the process.