Buying GuideOur Process
Learn AboutOur Process
When you choose Smith Douglas Homes for your new home, you’ll find the process to be a welcoming shopping experience, personalized with interactive, digital tools to visualize your new home while you are shopping for it. Once building your new home, you will see how our efficient process leads to a quality home that has enduring value. *Our Houston Area build process will vary. We invite you to learn more!
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At Smith Douglas Homes, we offer an approachable process. Our new home specialists are skilled at meeting buyers where they are in their new home journey. Using our interactive tools available online, you may become more familiar with our floor plans and availability in advance of visiting one of our communities.
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Making Your First Visit
When you visit our model home and welcome center, you are welcome to drop-in at your own convenience or schedule a visit ahead of time. We work with both buyers and buyer agents. Upon arrival, we will discuss your needs and desires for your home and lifestyle. We will introduce key details about the community with you as well as open the door for a tour of our designer decorated model home.
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Selecting Your Home
Location, community, and homesite preference, might dictate which floor plans are offered. When it comes to home selection, you might need to make the move to a home quickly. Depending on timing and community development, we offer options on either a quick move-in home, already started with our most popular options, or a home that is built to your specifications with a 2+ month timeline. Our New Home Specialist will provide you a quote for your new home, including any personalized specifications.
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Financing Your Home
Explore your financing options on your own terms. You can get pre-qualified now to understand your buying power, or wait until after you've received a quote on your new home. Whenever you're ready, our preferred lender, Ridgeland Mortgage, offers a simplified, stress-free experience. Their new construction specialists will guide you from contract to closing, and you’ll qua;ify to receive closing cost assistance and access to current promotions as a bonus.*
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Designing Your Home
In most locations, our welcome centers are designed with selection samples inside to browse. You will be presented all of the home design options available for your home, before you choose to purchase with Smith Douglas Homes. Prior to your visit, you may use the interactive tool online to sample colors together for most locations. Once your purchase agreement is signed, home selections choices will be made. Our a-la-carte selections approach allows you the flexibility to focus your budget on areas of the home that are most important to you. From here, your home price is determined and firm, there will be no surprises along the way.
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Building Your New Home
Construction starts by building it on paper first. We carefully plan and review the design of our communities, down to the details of each lot, as a lot specific plan. At this point, you’ll be introduced to your construction manager, and your home construction will begin. You’ll be able to follow along with progress in the homeowner portal.
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Closing on Your New Home
Before closing on your home, your lender will confirm all documentation is prepared. A closing date will be set with our closing attorney’s office and a final walk through will be scheduled with your construction manager. Your final walk through will orient you with your new home and features, with how to care for your home and how to reach us for any warranty issues. Prior to closing, you'll be notified the date is coming near. This is a time where you will not wish to make any changes to your credit until your new home closing occurs. Upon closing, your new home keys will be provided along with a 3rd party facilitated survey for your feedback. Now it's time to move in, welcome home!
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Value You’ll Find Built In
At Smith Douglas Homes, we pride ourselves on being a leader in the new home building industry for efficiency and operational excellence. Our processes drive waste and inefficiencies out, which ultimately translates to a better value for you, the customer. Here, you can be confident that you are getting a quality home, built with integrity that will offer you a value you’ll be proud of. Make your choice for new with Smith Douglas Homes.
Our Quality Brands and Products
We're pleased to work with some of the best known brands in the business that stand behind quality products and materials.
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