Application

We submitted our application for the Mutual Self-Help Program this week. We are anxious to hear back regarding our application status. I am confident we meet all of the criteria and hope everything falls into place.

We have been told it takes an average of about 2-3 weeks to receive approval, but it sounds like the applications are a little backed up right now and we may have to wait for more like 6 weeks. It does sound like we are the 6th of at least 7 applications, so hopefully that means if all applications get approved, we would be able to begin building right away.

In the meantime, we need to complete the First Time Home Buyer's education class, which I think is about 6 hours long. I anticipate it will be a little dry, but probably helpful.

We drove around the neighborhood of interest and saw the completed and nearly completed homes that are already part of the program. We were pleased to see that the neighborhoods were very nice, the homes were beautiful, and I would have never guessed it was a neighborhood full of homes built by a program like this. Even better is the fact that all of the homes have unique color and rock combinations and the house plans are diverse. I was concerned it would be obvious these homes were self-made and that they might look exactly the same. I hate those kinds of neighborhoods.

I look forward to hearing back (hopefully soon) and hope we get approved. Now we just have to wait.