Vigorous selection rapidly reaching 25 ft. or more. Has even been promoted as the fastest growing crab-apple. This probably has something to do with the low pricing - the stock sizes up very quickly. And/or it was just a grower trying to clear their field, at this time of severely diminished interest from consumers in woody ornamentals.

Missouri Botanical Garden Robinson crabapple

You can plant it planning to cut it down when it grows too large, or you can put it somewhere that it has room to reach 25' in all directions or you can buy a suitably sized tree. I think regular pruning for width will make a mess of a tree since it will put out extra growth on the remaining branches creating a congested canopy. The tree won't learn that you want it narrow. Don't you have enough width near your front fence if you plant it somewhere toward the side?

Well I will show you where I thought of putting it...the small bush(baby) i circled in black is a viburnum and I can't find the information card that came with its...so idr the type of viburnum it is, so I can't figure out how big the bush will end up? And where I circled pink is where I thought about putting it...but then there is a smoke bush to the right as you can see in the second pic...I know I can move stuff around if I need to..but I wonder if I even need to because if these 2 shrubs get big enough maybe I should go with another shrub instead?? Don't forget there's a new Floribunda crab to the left of the viburnum that I planted this spring...which is said to get pretty pig as well (25'). It's the price point that tempts me lol

Also I've yet to mulch my beds (bad I know, I'll do before fall I promise lol) because I finally painted my house (yay!!) and I put a new deck on...I'll post pics only because I'm in love with both the deck and my new house color lol...(also as you can see, I snuck in a new planting area at base of deck hahaha I'm addicted!!) still have to paint the trim white and finish the wood on the banister going down the stairs..but I loveeee the blue..so much better than the tired red I had ...so yeah these projects caused me to never get around to really mulching in the front beds

Also the place I want to put the crab tree is facing east...I get a ton of sun (which I love) but I wonder will the tree make my front area shady? Or is it still small enough that I'll get plenty of sun? Because shade will be a deal breaker for the tree...I'm ok with a small amount of shade, but I love having the sun beam through my windows in the morning...I am on a hill so my house is actually higher than the house across from me..so I wonder if because of the sloping if that will allow the sun to still shine into my windows no prob?

The problem with pruning it to keep it small is that crabapple are prone to disease and you risk it catching a disease through the wounds some year.

You can certainly prune the viburnum or smoke tree to keep them small. Or at $11,00 you can buy it with the expectation you will cut it down in a decade.

Plant something that will work instead - there should be plenty of options.

My experience is that with repeated or heavy pruning crabs send up ugly water shoots ( shoots straight up from its horizontal branches) and they make it look a twiggy ugly mess

Save your 11 bucks And buy the right plant

Or just buy the tree and move the shrubs if it becomes a problem I guess??!!

Probably a good buy, just check the root system - be prepared to prune off or straighten deformed/rootbound roots.