From closing to moving in: Sable Homes May Apple model a perfect affordable fit for first homeowners

After an unsuccessful and extensive search for a home that would accommodate their budget and their family of four in Belding, Tracey and Skyler Fisk are the first homeowners of Sable Homes’ new May Apple design, which brings a solution to attainable housing in West Michigan.
“We were looking for houses for almost a year and could not find anything in our price range that was livable,” said Tracey Fisk. “Sable Homes was able to come up with a new floor plan, called the May Apple, and it fits us really well. Sable Homes was able to make this process very easy for us to build our new home.”

The Fisk’s 1,152-square-foot May Apple home is a 3-bedroom, ranch-style home, built on the Sable Homes’ patented Freedom Foundation©, which features a thick, foam barrier surrounding the slab foundation, that provides insulation and protection. The Freedom Foundation allows homeowners to build a house without a basement or crawl space, yet have a stable, insulated and energy efficient affordable home.

“Affordability was a big part of our decision to build a May Apple home – it was significantly cheaper than most anything else that we looked at,” said Skyler. “The barriers of the housing market right now – everything is so expensive. To get any house with any size to it is just outrageously priced. This house is big enough for what we needed and in a spot where we wanted to be,” said Skyler Fisk. “We were looking at affordability for what we needed and the May Apple was able to give us what we needed from that. It worked out really well.

“And we’ve definitely seen smaller electric and gas bills than we had in any of our previous houses,” Skyler added.

“It definitely exceeded our expectations and is a way better fit for our family than what we imagined it to be,” said Tracey.

In the video below, watch the Fisks’ journey of homeownership unfold – from signing the closing papers and groundbreaking, to framing and putting the final design touches on their home, to getting the keys and living in their new May Apple home in Belding – the final step in achieving the American Dream.

View their full May Apple homeownership journey, here.