Saturday, December 7, 2013

Too good to be true?

In the back of my mind, I've been a little worried that everything seemed to be moving to smoothly, and I've been mentally preparing myself for the news that something is going to be delayed.  Well, I got that phone call on Thursday.  I'm still not sure what the whole story is, but apparently last week, someone stole the wire connecting the house to the main electrical supply.  A new wire was ordered and the power company (West Penn Power. GRRRR!) was supposed to be out Thursday to hook it back up.  Our PM talked to them Thursday morning to verify they were coming and was informed they would not be out until Monday.  We are supposed to close on Tuesday, which doesn't give our PM enough time to get all of the inspections completed before closing.  We were initially extremely upset.  We have sitters and movers lined up and now everything has to be rescheduled.  We even tried calling the power company ourselves to see if we could get them out sooner.  At the end of the day, it's not as bad as initially expected.  Our biggest concern was that the movers wouldn't be available.  We only have our storage until through December 15th, so if we couldn't get movers scheduled before then, we'd have to pay for another whole month for the units.  So, now we're closing December 13th and moving the 14th and I'm crossing my fingers and knocking on wood that nothing is delayed going forward. Here's hoping!

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Final Walk-Through Scheduled... I think?

We are getting really close to closing and part of me is super excited, but the other part is nervous that something will go wrong and we won't be able to close next week.  Hubs has been very diligent about getting in touch with NVR to make sure they have everything they need, since they don't seem to be concerned with asking for everything themselves.  We've had a few different days/times tentatively scheduled for our final walk-through, but I think we're finally down to an official day.  Time is still yet to be determined. I'm definitely starting to get annoyed with the whole process and how nothing ever seems to go according to schedule.  It's frustrating that I'm living 45 minutes away with a baby, so I plan to be in the area for something and it ultimately gets pushed back a day or two.  Haven't they built enough of these things that the timeline should be fairly consistent? I also can't wait to see what happens in our final walk-through with a few issues in the house.  We try not to bug our PM too much with small issues that we see because we realize he may not have done an inspection yet, but when there are obvious cracks in cabinets that have been hanging for weeks, it was time to say something and not just hope that they would be fixed in the next few days.  I understand that he's busy, but our home is also a priority and he should be there to look at things before the last week and hope that everything he needs to get fixed will.  I have a feeling there will be a lot of post-its hung around the house for our 30 day inspection. Every switch plate will be hung level if it's the last thing I do!