Hi, my name is Alaina. I'm full of great ideas but I'm not always great on the follow-through.
It feels really good to get that off my chest.
Once upon a time...in a land as far away as early May...I had a great idea to blog about my friend, Michelle. Michelle is our first guest buyer...a title you can read all about below.
I'm re-posting my original post about Michelle for two reasons:
1. I felt the need to confess my follow-through sins.
2. Michelle has a great story to share. And there are many more posts to come.
This is my friend Michelle. Everyone, meet Michelle. Michelle, meet everyone.
Before I tell you why I'm introducing you to Michelle, lemme tell you why I love this picture of her...
#1. It was taken in Italy. My favorite place in the world.
#2. Her shirt says, 'Stay at Home Rock Star.' It doesn't get much cooler than that.
#3. Happiness is infectious and looking at this picture makes me smile. We can all use more of that.
Back to why I'm introducing you to Michelle...
Michelle is our very first guest buyer. Guest what? What's a guest buyer? Well...I'm glad you asked, fictional voice in my head. A guest buyer is a title I made up for Michelle so she could get the experience of building a Garman Home virtual-reality style. Now some of you quick folks out there might be asking...why doesn't Michelle just build an actual Garman Home? Why go virtual?
Because Michelle, like most of us, prefers to own just one home at a time. And she already has a home. A home she tried to sell so she could buy one of ours in Sunset Oaks. But it didn't sell.
[insert sympathetic-yet-not-surprising sigh here...maybe some of you have been there-done that.]
When Michelle sent me an email and told me they were taking their home off the market I was genuinely sad. Sad for her knowing what she would be missing. Knowing how excited she was at the prospect of building her own home. I know what a cool experience it is to get to build a home from scratch...I get to live vicariously though each and every one of the inventory homes we build. I get to pick out all kinds of cool stuff...funky tile, souped-up wide-plank floors and even the occasional custom slab of granite that makes me dizzy with visions of elegant dinner parties dancing in my head. I am spoiled by the new home experience. I didn't want Michelle to miss out on that.
So I decided to offer Michelle the virtual experience of building a new home. Why not? As far as reaching your target demographic goes, it doesn't get much better than having someone who would buy your house design it for someone who could buy your house. And because I work with the best people on the planet, when I first proposed this idea they didn't ask about all the how's, when's and why's...they just offered their full support. Which, I gladly accepted.
So to recap: we're building the house Michelle would have built...but not for Michelle...for someone else...who shall be named later...but Michelle's gonna pick out all the stuff for the house. And in the meantime, we're going to chronicle Michelle's experience here. And it's gonna be cool because...well...that's just how a Stay at Home Rock Star rolls.
