Thursday, August 28, 2014

We Have Dates!



Pre-Drywall - September 5

We scheduled our pre-drywall meeting for next week! Things are moving so fast!

1:30 - Walk through with our PM & our Guardian Rep to look things over and pick final locations for all of our extra outlets and wiring

2:30 - Walk through with our home inspector (We opted to hire one on our own too)

2:45/3:00 - Go over what inspector saw with our PM

Any tips on things we should look for??


Settlement - October 22

Our PM let us know we are on schedule to settle on October 22! A little bit earlier than we thought it would be, although we had a feeling it would be that way since they've had incredible weather so far. This is a perfect moving time! Not too hot, not too cold. Also, it will be pretty easy for us to take time off from work around that time.



Two other quick updates:

Trex debacle - Our SR reached out to us today. She let us know they didn't forget about us and she's still waiting on an answer from her management team.

Update: They are building us a Trex deck. Still no word on what level of Trex they'll be using so hopefully it's not the cheapest possible deck they could get us. We were really surprised by this! We really thought they'd just give us some extra lighting! I would think that would have been cheaper, but I guess it's illegal to spout off brand names and then provide something different. Who knows. Not gonna lie .. I would have preferred some pendant lighting, but I guess it's nice that they're actually sticking to their word!

The ugly couch - I am still taking off fabric. The amount of staples in furniture is obscene. I'm having nightmares about removing staples! I'm almost done though. Once the ugly fabric is off we can use it as a pattern to cut the new fabric and start getting ready to make the couch beautiful!




 

10 comments:

  1. OMG! You have dates - that is sooooo awesome to have dates! I think ya'll are about a week ahead of us which gives me hope we'll be closing earlier than they originally told us (11/1 - 11/20 is the range).

    Thanks for posting the pre-drywall schedule - we are also hiring an inspector. You only have the inspector blocked off for 15 minutes - is that enough time? I'm not sure how much time it takes?

    So excited for ya'll!!!

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    1. Thanks! It is so exciting! I'm thinking your schedule will be moved up as well! I think they tell you later dates in the beginning because they'd rather surprise you with early dates than push it back!

      No problem! I'm not sure why we only have 15 minutes. I'm thinking we can take as much time as we need but that's the rough schedule. I'm definitely not rushing through with the inspector!

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  2. You girls are 2 weeks ahead of us and they are still telling me December. I'm hoping that once they frame us things will start to pick up... I swear our development is the slowest Ever.

    Great news on the Trex! That's awesome that they will do it!

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    1. I have a feeling they'll move your date up by at least a little (especially since you've spoken to the president over there). Once framing starts, and if weather cooperates, things will go up so fast!

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  3. That's so cool that you have a date now. We're almost neck and neck with you guys. I hope we can get a settlement date that close. I'm still hoping to get in before November, but don't think it's likely to happen.

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    1. We're pretty happy with the anticipated date! Hopefully your date will get moved up as well since we are a very similar schedule! I'm crossing my fingers that the building weather stays nice!

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  4. Congrats on the date, that is exciting. Love the pictures.

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  5. hello!
    I just happened on your blog and excited to see you recently built in De. I am in the process of building in Middletown myself and have had the hardest time locating a solid home inspector. I finally settled on one with mixed review mainly because he was the only who definitely did inspections throughout the building process. Can you give me the name of the inspector you used please!

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    1. Hey Jessica! I'm so sorry! I just saw this comment! If you still need a name of someone please let me know and I'll see if my boyfriend still has his name!

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