Well, like Keith said, this was like an area where we grew up, Mississippi, and we wanted to have a place where we had space for the grandkids to run and play and just enjoy the nature and the country life.

Hi, I'm Keith, and this is my wife, Taara, and we built a Tilson custom home in Waller County. Well, we found Tilson - we went out to Texas Grand Ranch, just looking at different models out there and came across a Tilson model home there. I don't think we realized it was there, but we went in, saw it.

And one of the things that grabbed me was there was a video playing in there about the EasyBuy program. The EasyBuy program was perfect for us. We knew we didn't want to have a construction loan. At the time, we signed with Tilson. Their initial fee was like $1,500, so that's all we had to put up front. And then for the entire build, we didn't have to pay anything else, and that was important to us.

We had a house that we were going to be selling. We sold that right at the end of the build before we moved in here. And so it just - the EasyBuy program just made it so much nicer for us not to have to worry about making payments on a mortgage or on a construction loan that - we weren't even in the house yet and were making interest payments. And so it was just - it's a perfect fit for anybody wanting to do that.

Well, we were in the suburbs for about 20 years, and we were very excited. And we would come out here every weekend, sometimes twice a weekend after they started with a slab. And we were just so excited to come out here and see what they had done each week, and sometimes we would get really anxious about - oh my goodness, something's new. Or he would come out here by himself, and he would call me and say, hey, they've added flooring or whatever it was. And so the whole process was exciting, anxious at times. But it was all worth the wait.

Since it is a custom home, I spent many hours, late night, drawing out everything. I know where every light switch is. I know where all the wiring goes because I drew it out. And Tanya made it come to life. But there are some things about Tillson homes that we really loved. Like For instance, our porch posts are solid wood. They're not boards nailed together, the OZCO bases. I know it's little things like that, but I love that because it gives it a beefier look.

And the house just is - it's a tight house. When you close those doors, you don't hear the outside noises. Since we're out here in the wooded area, we have a lot of the nature sounds, the crickets and all that. And you go out on the porches, and you hear all this really loud late at night when you - as soon as you close that door, you don't hear it. And so Tilson builds a really tight, sound house, so that's what we love about it.

Yes, I would recommend Tilson, and I guess because the process, meeting with Tanya, was so easy - and she had such good ideas for us, and she really talked us through the process and let us know what to expect. And so that was reassuring to us through the build. And do you have anything to add to that? Yeah. I would just say, because Tilson makes it so easy, if you have your own land to build, like we did, then I would definitely recommend that to anyone because you have so much leeway to make changes with their plans. And you can put it on your piece of land and turn it, position it however you want it, and then changes to the plan. It's just - they make it so easy that it's just hard not to go with them versus other builders we looked at said, yeah, they could build a house in six months, but we weren't going to have a lot of input on changes. And so Tilson allows you to do that, and that's what drew us to Tilson.