Getting quite close

No sod today:( It is supposed to be laid tomorrow and typing with a broken finger is damn near impossible. Enjoy the quick videos. I will add more pics soon. 

Getting Close

     So we are still set to do the final walk through on the morning of the 23rd and then we will be closing at noon. We will hopefully have the U-haul loaded on Sunday night and ready to unload when we are done signing the papers.
     We went to the house this afternoon and the carpet layers were just leaving. We got to see our carpet selection and we were quite happy, out of our 5 options of carpets, 4 of them were tan and we wanted the furthest from that. We also got to see our granite choice. Wow!!!

Graduation Trip!!!

As you can tell we had a great time down in the DR. Thank you again for the wonderful graduation trip Mom, it was the most amazing trip ever!!!

Lobby

View from our room. Pool view with a hint of ocean. 

View from breakfast every morning. 

Beach Bar.

Very little

As you see our siding has been competed. On the flip side, nothing, I mean nothing has been touched inside for the last thirteen days. This is such a waste. I spoke with the PM and he is making up more excuses. We are in the unfortunate position where we can't check on the progress but every two weeks and we feel as if he takes advantage of this. Another reason we feel this way is because the PM will take two to three days to respond to a text or call and that's lucky, we normally have to write multiple times.

NVR Closing timeline

We received a letter from NVR closing dept today stating that we are able to close on June 23rd!!!! This is great news except we are starting our new jobs on that day. Another weird thing is that we just finished our pre-drywall meeting with our PM four days ago and he stated that our settlement walk through would be on the 27th and he would like a week two fix the issues that would come up and so we couldn't close until the first week of July. I am beyond happy to be closing sooner, but this lack of communication between the PM and us is horrific.

Inspector gadget

We finally passed our electrical and general building inspections. Not that we were Failed at anytime for the quality of the build, it was just waiting 6 days for the inspectors to show up and we lost that week of progress.

Pre drywall

On Friday May 9th we had our pre-drywall meeting with our PM. It was very uneventful as he just confirmed our selections and walked around the house. We were informed that nothing has been done on our house since the Wednesday before and won't have anything done till at least Monday or Tuesday because the PM didn't schedule the inspections correctly. Damn it!!!  We asked him about moving the closing date up and he said the pre-settlement walk through is still on June 27th and we can close the week after. This doesn't make any sense on why it will take 60 days from now to finish the house when the timeline from Ryan Homes and our sales rep says the Palermo is a 67 day build from when they break ground on a well timed out build. But anyways, I will quit my rant and enjoy a donut that we bought for the invisible crew working on our house.

Rear view 

Standing in back corner of the study. 

Kitchen and morning room. Not bad lighting considering we didn't' get the extra windows

Bedroom 3 upstairs showing the front windows

Trying to show off the 12ft ceilings in the garage

Our steps 

Living room from where the TV will be placed

Powder room on first floor. I think we will frost the glass day one

Morning room rough in. 

Standing in the corner of the master. Master bath is on the left,

The roof is on.

The weekly Thursday update from our SR was a pleasant surprise while we were at dinner. I'm starting to like these pictures she always sends looking through her window while she does a drive by. We have been trying to get in contact with our PM to see if he was able to get the electrician to wire the garage carriage lights to the front door switch. This is the only thing out of a number of request that the PM didn't shoot down during our first meeting. He told us he will build the house Ryan Homes tells him to. Nothing less and barely anything more. But we are really excited about the progress he is making. He might not be the most talkative man, but he can build a house quickly.

 and the next day we are still at this level.

I'm also wondering about the house wrap. Usually it is applied when they are framing since they are already working around all the windows and such. You can see a remnant of the wrap under the roof line.

A surprise

We had not heard anything from our PM in over a week when I last wrote him and asked for an update and he stated that nothing would happen till next week. Well since I didn't hear anything all week, I assumed no progress had been made. But I wrote an email to our SR since our PM doesn't work past 4 pm or on weekends; so our SR said she was in a meeting on Sat morning and would drive by our lot later in the day and see if there was any progress on the house. Low and behold



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This was Thursday at noon

This was Saturday at 6 pm

Lumber

So on Thursday during our lecture, Court received a text from our wonderful SR with the picture below. It seems our lumber was delivered and it also looks like our garage floor and hopefully basement slabs were poured as well. It is getting close to looking like a house.

Foundation is done!!!

So over the weekend our footings were poured; then the foundation forms were set and then poured. The waterproofing was laid down last Thursday as well. They were supposed to backfill on Tuesday, lumber was scheduled to be delivered today and framing starts on Thursday April, 24th. We will see if they stick to the plan or not. I have to text or call him to see where we are at. It is quite difficult being four hours away from your house while it is being built and having absolutely no idea what is going on with something you spent so much money on.

A view from the road

Front and center, 

Front right corner

From the future driveway

Standing on the dirt pile in the back. This is the bump out for the morning room

Dito

Video of the model

One of our future neighbors.



Our carpet and vinyl choices

Cabinets, counters and floor.

Video of the model's main floor.

The basement. We did not get the recessed lights. Wondering if we should have