Thank you for sharing ,I live in Houston area too .may I know which dealer you went to ?
I live out west of Houston. So joe meyers ford and autonation ford are the closest to me however they didn’t have the stock I was looking for. The autonation ford experience was also pretty pretty poor although they may have just been the sales-person.
I went to Mac Haik ford and they had good stock and the sales guy was way better than any of the folks we dealt with at other dealers around (dodge, Chevy, etc).
Make sure to check the dealer websites to find the dealer price and use that as your starting price and work your way down.
The 0.9% financing is likely gone though as I believe that was through ford corporate/credit company and not dealer.