Future Habitat Orlando & Osceola homeowner Stephanie knows her son and granddaughter are watching her everyday as she goes off to work and diligently manages her budget saving up to purchase their future home.
Stephanie, who works for a local school district and at a large retail store, said it’s important to her to set an example for them, to let them know if she can reach milestones like homeownership, someday they can too.
“I work very hard, and if they’re seeing what I’m achieving, they’re going to know that if they do it, it can happen for them too,” she said.
After years of trying to purchase a home on the open market and being denied the first time she applied to purchase a home through Habitat Orlando & Osceola, Stephanie said she’s over the moon to be accepted into the program and on her way to homeownership.
Her Orange County home will be the sixth home built by Williams Company during Habitat Orlando & Osceola’s annual Home for the Holidays event. They kicked off the first home in Kissimmee on Nov. 8 and will kick off Stephanie’s future home on Dec. 2. During the event, the homebuilder, along with its subcontractors and vendors, will donate the labor and materials to turn two empty lots into brand new, affordable homes in a matter of weeks. There will be dedication ceremonies for both homes on Dec. 13.
Stephanie said she is incredibly grateful to Williams Company for donating their time and resources to build the home she plans to share with her son and 15-year-old granddaughter. She said the home will provide security and peace for her and her family.
She said she’s excited to start fresh in her brand-new home that she’ll purchase from Habitat Orlando & Osceola with an affordable mortgage. Unlike the rentals she’s lived in in the past, she said, she won’t have to worry about things constantly breaking or being patched up in her new home.
Stephanie said she’s most looking forward to creating a special place just for herself in her new bedroom. She’s envisioning a brand-new bedroom set, big comfy pillows and a fresh mattress to help her make her house a home.
With her goal of homeownership nearing completion, Stephanie said she wants her story to help encourage anyone else struggling to purchase a home.
“I want to encourage anybody that wants to go on a homeownership journey: Don’t give up. Because at one point, that’s what I felt like,” she said. “I felt like giving up. I felt like, this is not for me. I’m not going to get it. But I just prayed. I really just prayed, and I asked God to just lead me where he wants me to go.”
Stephanie said that led her to start working on her credit and paying off her debt. She said she had to make tough choices when it came to spending, deciding what was a want and what was a need. And in the end, all that work led her to qualify to purchase her home through Habitat Orlando & Osceola.
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