Discover Our Process

We believe in a Quality Process: By use of systems, process, and great people, we consistently deliver a better built, brand-new home. Designed to provide you with an unmatched customer experience before, during, and after the construction of your brand new home, learn more about what happens at each step of our process below!

Sign the Purchase Agreement

This is where you buy your Creative home! By now you should have selected your desired floor plan and homesite within the community. Your New Home Specialist will walk you through each step of this purchase agreement to help you understand everything that is being covered. At this point, everything becomes official and the process begins! 

Earnest Money Check

When you sign your purchase agreement, you will submit an earnest money check to the New Home Specialist. This simply represents that you are ready and willing to move forward and allows us to get started on your plans.

Structural Review & Sign-off

After your New Home Specialist receives your preliminary set of plans, you will have a structural review meeting with your New Home Specialist to review your plans. This is where you will review all of your selected plan options and review the structure of your home! Once everything is good to go, you will then approve on the plans for your home!

Apply for Financing

After signing a purchase agreement, you will have 30 days to receive a pre-approval letter from a lender of your choice. At Creative Homes, we have two preferred lenders that we work with: Better Built Mortgage and Waterstone Mortgage. Your lender will be involved throughout the construction of your home, to ensure your financing is squared away prior to close. When using a preferred lender, you get $6,000 off closing costs!

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Design Studio Appointments

Your Design Studio Specialist will contact you shortly after you sign off on your plans to schedule your Design Studio Appointments. Our Design Studio Specialists are ready to guide you through personalizing your brand-new Creative Home in our design center in Woodbury! Your first Design Studio Appointment will be roughly 4 hours with a second follow up meeting lasting around 2-3 hours. Please make arrangements for childcare during these appointments.

Homeowner Pre-Build Orientation

Prior to breaking ground on your homesite, you will meet with your New Home Specialist and Neighborhood Builder to verify your plans and homesite survey. This is a great opportunity for you to ask questions about the “nuts and bolts” of your home and to understand the construction process.

Pre Dry-Wall Tour

Prior to the installation of your mechanical systems such as your electrical, heating, cooling, and plumbing, you will go on a Pre-Drywall Tour with your Neighborhood Builder. At this meeting, you will verify the location of the outlets and switches in your home.

Visiting Your Home During Construction

You are welcome to visit your homesite accompanied by your Neighborhood Builder or New Home Specialist throughout the construction of your home. At Creative Homes, safety is our number one priority, so we ask that you always wear close toed shoes, and a hard hat which the Neighborhood Builder or New Home Specialist will provide you when necessary. Please do not enter your home without a Creative Homes representative with you.

Closing Date Scheduled

As the completion of your new home nears, we will contact you to schedule your closing date. Our goal is to provide you with a closing approximately 30 days prior to completion.

Welcome Home Orientation

Your Welcome Home Orientation is an introduction to your new home and its many features. During this Orientation, we will:

Demonstrate the features of your new home.

Verify that your selections are installed per plan and identify corrections that need to be addressed, if any.

Review our Warranty Process including discussing the 60-day & 11-month check ins.

Closing on Your New Home

This is where you become Creative Homes homeowner! At the closing table, you will be handed the keys to your new home! We will guide you every step of the way through the signing process and work with your lender to help you understand what you will need to bring to the closing table. From this point on, Welcome Home to your brand-new Creative Home!

Follow Up Survey

60 days after you close on your new home, you will be sent a survey form a third-party survey company called Constellation Homebuilder Systems. Please take time to fill out this survey as it provides us with important information on how to continue to improve our business to provide you and future homeowners with an unmatched customer experience.

Warranty Check-Ins

We will contact you to schedule a warranty check in within 60 days after closing, and 11 months after closing. During these check ins, we will review your home, and address any concerns you may have, if any, regarding the warrantable items of your home. Please reference the Limited Warranty Manual to understand our Warranty. You can also review our warranty here.

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Design Studio

This is where you will make decisions for your new home from faucets to flooring to tile and everything in between to truly personalize your home. With the help of our Design Studio Specialists and your New Home Specialist, we provide you with opportunities to personalize both the structure and selections of your home. Your Design Studio Specialist will reach out to schedule your two Design Studio Appointments. In the meantime, feel free to browse our Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Houzz pages to find inspiration for your new home.
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Hear From Our Homeowners

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The building process was so fun and easy; every week it was so exciting to see progress on our home. The design studio made for an easy experience when picking all the materials for our home. From start to completion, their attention to detail was phenomenal. Creative Homes has a solid team of experts and were always there to answer any question we would have. There is no doubt that I would recommend Creative Homes to anyone building a home.

Nate & Beth
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I really enjoyed the weekly calls with the builder. It made me feel like I knew what progress was happening during the build, and really set a tone of trust with the builder that I wasn't expecting. I found those conversations, even when very short, to be extremely helpful in staying calm during the build process.

Panek
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Wow! It's hard to know where to even start and I know I won't be able to list everything, but I have to try and tell you how we awesome we feel about the whole building process with Creative Homes and how much we truly love our new home. The process of building with Creative Homes was the most relaxing (sounds weird, but so true!) home building experience we have ever been through. The communication provided from the very start until the very end has been phenomenal. Not once during the whole process did we ever sit and wonder what was going on regarding our home.  I honestly wish I could name everyone behind the scenes at Creative Homes who works so hard to make customers like us have such an awesome home building experience. This company has the standards and employees that all companies should take note of and follow the example of. 

Gunderson Family
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The Leick family share their unmatched customer experience working with our team.

Leick Family
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Building a home with Creative is more than a process of building a house. Its the people you get to meet, work with and get to know along the way. And Creative knows the right people to have in the right position.

Doug Brahee
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