Off to sign the papers

Okay, so on a beautiful Saturday morning on July 26th, 2008, I gather up the troops (my daughter and my folks) to head to the Mattamy sales office to sign the papers. Feeling pretty good and excited, I had a big smile as we headed there.

We enter the sales office and find Alan Doak who was one of the sales agents and had been very helpful. I walked over the the little model that they had of the entire HMB community. I pointed out unit 504-2 to my folks and then they noticed that it was directly in front of Foxhound Way (i.e. cars would be driving directly towards that house). Well, my parents being somewhat traditional and following the whole Feng Shui thing, said it was bad luck. They insisted I choose a different lot. When I told them that I did not like the other lots for the reasons I had mentioned in my last blog entry, they still weren't pleased.

At this point, my cheery mood turned into one of stress. Again, not that I'm superstitious or anything but since my parents were helping me out with a few things on the house, I figured they would have a little bit of say in the whole thing. Plus, I could just picture my mom just going on and on and on about it being bad luck and all. I love my mom, I really do, but I can't believe what was happening here.

So, my only other choice that I would be happy with would be going with 505-4 elev B. Everything was good with that lot from my parent's perspective. I just couldn't bring myself to spending another $4k. My parents offered to pay for the extra cost but I didn't want them spending the money either. I went back to the model of the community and stared at it for a long time thinking it over.

After about an hour of deep thought, I simply picked up my daughter (then 4 years old) and carried her over to the area with the floorplans. I pointed at the pictures of the Fernwater houseplan and said to her "do you like A? Or do you like B?". She being very chipper that morning said in a cheery voice "B!". And that's how I ended up choosing 505-4.