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Your Path to Purchase & Build

Your Path to Purchase & Build

How To Buy

The following steps are a guide through the building process of our new homes. Tim O’Brien Homes finds the experience much easier when there is a clear idea of what happens next. Our commitment is to keep you informed from the first meeting to well after move in.

Connect With Our New Home Specialist

  • We will talk about your total investment budget.
  • Match possible locations for you.
  • Help you start thinking about home plans.
  • Are you interested in a Move-In Ready Home or Building a home from scratch?
  • Schedule your appointment with a New Home Sales Professional.

Discover Your New Home Destiny

  • Our New Home Sales Professional will help you determine your ideal match for location, home plan, and personalized options.
  • We will connect you with the appropriate lending organization based on your needs.
  • We will recommend either the proper Move-In Ready Home or price out your dream home.

Decide If We Are A Match

  • Whether you decide to build with us, with another builder, or purchase an existing home, we want what's best for you. 

How To Build

Contract Signed & Initial Plan Draft

  • Congrats, you're starting the process of building your new home!
  • Our Virtual Design Coordinators will take your build agreement markups and draw your entire home in 3D.
  • The Initial Plan Draft will be reviewed by you and your New Home Sales Professional.

Design Studio Appointment

  • To many of our homeowners, this is the most exciting part of your homebuilding experience!
  • You will meet with your Design Center Professional to personalize your Tim O'Brien Home.
  • This includes selecting your exterior colors of the home, flooring, cabinet styles and colors, countertops, plumbing fixtures, and everything in between.

Loan Closing & Start of Construction

  • Once the loan is funded, the lot is closed, the insurance certificate is received, and the permit is in place, construction begins!

Building Your Home and Move-In

The new home is built through the combined effort of specialists in many trades. Only authorized suppliers, and trade contractor partners, are permitted to perform work in the new home.

The New Home Sales Professional and Building Professional will guide you throughout the process, including a Pre-Move-In Orientation, a Pre-Drywall Orientation, and a Pre-Closing Orientation.

The stages of construction are as follows:

  • Foundation
  • Framing
  • Rough Mechanics
  • Insulation
  • Drywall
  • Trim
  • Finish