*Day 17* photos

Garage has been back filled

Support beams placed

Driveway :)

Not much to update on as of yet.  The city has inspected our basement walls and they passed!!! Woohoo right!? LOL.  Our PM said the only thing left before the lumber arrives Tuesday is to pour the garage floor and basement floors.  But we need a "dry" day.  So hopefully this past Friday they were able to do that!

Still waiting to hear back from NVR.  I think they are just buying time at this point.  I will update more once we head to the lot this week for lumber photos.  =]

Day 16 and more....

In my previous post I mentioned asking our PM to let us know when our water proofing would be finished. He has been awesome with communication!

Email Monday Evening.....

Savanna,

The waterproofing is now installed on your home and I wanted to let you know since you had mentioned that you would like to see it applied to the wall system. The window to see it is small as we are planning on backfilling the foundation tomorrow. Let me know if you have a question about it that you would like for me to answer. 

Have a great evening,

Adam

Email Tuesday afternoon.....

Savanna,

The backfilling is occurring as we speak.  The waterproofing entails wrapping the outside of the foundation wall with a plastic membrane and topping off the drain tile material with additional gravel.  I have attached two pictures in case you were unable to check it out this morning.  Call or email back with any further questions. 

 

Thanks,

 

Adam

 

The fact he took photos and emailed them was so impressive.  Definitely makes you feel better knowing they want to show you progress so you don't miss out.  

These are the pictures sent from our PM.

From what we have been told by outsiders this is the high end materials used to keep out water and so forth.  Definitely do not want to deal with flooding!

NVR updates

So for those who read my post title "rant/vent" about the closing and financing selections here is an update.  Friday our loan processor with NVR called and wanted to go over the numbers I got from Union Savings.  He was trying to say that they were comparable in rate and closing.  Which they were not!  It took me about 4 times of explaining how to read the Good Faith from Union Savings until he finally seen the big picture.  He asked if he could have the weekend to look it over and would call us Monday. 

Monday evening rolled around and he did indeed call us.  Since our file is still in underwriting he can't access it to send us a new GFE but he says that he and his manager sat down and crunched numbers to where they can match the quote.  I will be interested to see this since the other bank allowed us to lock at 3.375 and pay our closing.  Here is to hoping they really can do this!

I have to say in a side note that our loan processor has been nothing but kind and helpful! He completely understands why we are searching and he has a job to support his company in keeping people from not using them.  Yet, I also have the same job to do for my family.  I just want to make sure my fellow bloggers know it hasn't been that we are being mistreated it all strictly comes down to business and closing a deal.

That's all I have for now...Next week our lumber arrives!! Which at the rate I have seen they frame the whole home in two days!!! 

*Day 14*

Basement Walls!!!

Finally our Basement wall foundation has been poured and we are right where we need to be timing wise.  I feel like a total BIA lately because I have been constantly emailing someone at Ryan Homes or NVR.  I am one of those people who likes everything in order and on track.  So if things look like they are slipping I start to freak a little.  I need to work on that.

I emailed our PM and asked about why we were behind people who started after us and he responded and said we would pull out ahead because our framing/lumber will be delivered 2 days before theirs on MAY 21st!  But to keep in mind we will all probably close the same week.  That gave me piece of mind.  I also asked if he would give us a heads up when the water proofing of the basement started. Which was planned for this past Friday the 10th.  But since it decided to come a hurricane rain fall it was postponed. My daughter and I decided to run by on Mother's Day just to see if their has been any progress.  She loves to see where her new home will be.  Especially where they are at with the pool and clubhouse. LOL.  To our surprise they removed the framing and you could actually see the walls!! What a great Mother's Day gift :)

Below are the pictures we took on Sunday =]

Front of home.  The gravel is where our Drive way will be.

Inside of walls.  The gravel fill in is the garage.

Looking down into the hole.  There was some water build up.

Nothing to worry about according to our PM.  

The little cut out is a window :) this is still facing front.

Standing on the right side of the home.  The "L" shape will be

Our finished portion.  Then it veers off towards the back 

We hope to finish that later on with maybe another bedroom.

Allexah loving the progress =]

*I am going to make another post today with out most recent progress and NVR financing updates!*

*Day 10* basement

The basement has finally been poured!! Thank goodness! I had a lot of other stresses today but I will save that for my next post.

*Day 8* Just Snailing along

Of course yesterday it rained all day long so I didn't even waste my time driving to the site. Today the rain held off so after work I made a trip over before heading home. When I pulled up I was really hoping for the "WOW" factor. Yet, to my disappointment it was just the prep for the basement wall frames. Ugh!!! I also was a little aggravated that the lot next to us which started after us had already passed the point we were at. Not a happy camper!!!! Hopefully things even themselves out this week. I took only a few photos today. The one of the clock is the turn about that leads to our home. In think its pretty so that's why I took a picture. HA!

I am trying really hard to be patient. But being homeless is not all its made out to be.

Not much happening...Day 6

Not really much to update on. They have filled in the lot/basement with some gravel. Our PM emailed me yesterday and said they would be pouring the foundation this week. With hopes to start the framing the following week. So picture wise not much to share.

I did get to take my mom out to the site this weekend!! She hasn't even seen the location. It was very exciting. We also took a tour through the model so she could get an idea of what our appliances and hardware would look like. She was really impressed.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

*Day 3*

Cement footer are in place! Still no word from underwriting. We had to cancel our bank appointment today. Maverick came down with strep for the 4th time in 4 months! So off to the ENT we go. Add that to the list of stresses!

Below are a few photos from today that Greg took. =] cement was filled in the footers :)