Sunday, June 29, 2014
Week 1-It has begun!
Well... the first official week of construction! It's still a pile of dirt, but its on its way!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Well as promised.. every Sunday we will be driving down to the new home site for pictures to update. I appreciate this pile of dirt more than I ever thought I would...
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| This photo is from where the back of the house will be, so eventually from this view you will see garage, yard, deck, etc. |
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| Here is a look down the street! It's crazy to think that when we started this process a few months ago this street was nearly empty. |
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| This is the view from the back, looking at future home sites. It might not seem it in this picture but they are moving so fast! The building in the far left was just a concrete foundation less than two weeks ago when we got back from vacation. |
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| To update the photo of the street view I added last weekend, they are continuing to make fast progress on the homes across the street from us. |
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Just a pic :)
Since I just wrote a long post I figured I'd add a quick pic! This is one hubby took while I was out of town to show me the progress on the units across the street. The view is from the end unit of our building (unit E) we are unit A. (which we just found out means that when the building is finished we will be the FIRST to close! YAY!
side note: our building will be the last on the street. Although they haven't released the site plan beyond that, our sales rep is predicting a single family, so hopefully that's what we will see. Regardless, our side view will just be open grass and trees and not another tall building blocking it!
We plan on updating photos at least once a week with the progress once construction starts. I say once a week because my husband made me promise I wouldn't make trips down there more often than that :)
side note: our building will be the last on the street. Although they haven't released the site plan beyond that, our sales rep is predicting a single family, so hopefully that's what we will see. Regardless, our side view will just be open grass and trees and not another tall building blocking it!
We plan on updating photos at least once a week with the progress once construction starts. I say once a week because my husband made me promise I wouldn't make trips down there more often than that :)
Progress!
So it has been awhile since I've posted any news... A lot has been going on here even though we have been playing the waiting game but we are excited to say that we have a date for construction to begin! The foundation will begin next weds the 25th!!! The boring wait is over (mostly) and now the fun begins! I've heard that from this point on everything moves very quickly and we are ready for it! So here is a recap of events since I last posted:
NVR. What a drama filled headache. I certainly hoped that even as I read nightmare stories from other bloggers that our NVR experience would be better... not so much. On a friday afternoon (about 3pm) I get a call from our processor with a list of items she needed by the following Monday morning. Did I mention I was leaving town that weekend and also had finals I was cramming to finish? Needless to say we were annoyed, and the information she was requesting caught us off guard. College transcripts were only the first item on the list. I am a full time student using my VA GI Bill benefits which covers my tuition 100% plus basic allowance for housing monthly and a book stipend. NVR didn't understand that the money I receive isn't a loan, I never have to pay it back. It is money the VA pays me to help with the cost of living if I am attending school full time. You have NO IDEA the back and forth we had trying to explain this to them. They even tried telling us that from here on out I could no longer use those payments for bills or any housing related costs until we would close on our new home in a few months since it technically isn't income. That's what those payments are intended for! In the end, they decided to completely drop my bank account off the paperwork so that they wouldn't have to explain it. There are a lot of other details that were involved in that issue but I won't bore anyone with all that. Suffice it to say NVR has been a frustrating experience and they clearly have difficulty working with/understanding military and VA pay. My husband is active duty and nearly everything had to be broken down and explained (more than once). All worked out in the end though. We received our loan approval May 29th! (And we locked in our mortgage rate yesterday when numbers took a surprising dip!)
On a far more exciting and less stressful note, we went on an awesome vacation to Orlando FL for a week (Thank you to the in-laws!!) and came home to some awesome news! We stopped by our SR's office to sign a change order and found out we had to schedule our pre construction meeting since they begin working in just over a week!
Our pre construction meeting with the project manager went great! He's a younger guy but don't let that fool you... hes extremely analytical and his attention to detail and knowledge with even the most off the wall questions we came up with give us a lot of confidence in this part of the process. He really made it clear that he is there to work with us and encouraged us to ask questions and be involved. Between the great relationship we have with him and our sales rep, it more than makes up for the frustrations we had with NVR.
NVR. What a drama filled headache. I certainly hoped that even as I read nightmare stories from other bloggers that our NVR experience would be better... not so much. On a friday afternoon (about 3pm) I get a call from our processor with a list of items she needed by the following Monday morning. Did I mention I was leaving town that weekend and also had finals I was cramming to finish? Needless to say we were annoyed, and the information she was requesting caught us off guard. College transcripts were only the first item on the list. I am a full time student using my VA GI Bill benefits which covers my tuition 100% plus basic allowance for housing monthly and a book stipend. NVR didn't understand that the money I receive isn't a loan, I never have to pay it back. It is money the VA pays me to help with the cost of living if I am attending school full time. You have NO IDEA the back and forth we had trying to explain this to them. They even tried telling us that from here on out I could no longer use those payments for bills or any housing related costs until we would close on our new home in a few months since it technically isn't income. That's what those payments are intended for! In the end, they decided to completely drop my bank account off the paperwork so that they wouldn't have to explain it. There are a lot of other details that were involved in that issue but I won't bore anyone with all that. Suffice it to say NVR has been a frustrating experience and they clearly have difficulty working with/understanding military and VA pay. My husband is active duty and nearly everything had to be broken down and explained (more than once). All worked out in the end though. We received our loan approval May 29th! (And we locked in our mortgage rate yesterday when numbers took a surprising dip!)
On a far more exciting and less stressful note, we went on an awesome vacation to Orlando FL for a week (Thank you to the in-laws!!) and came home to some awesome news! We stopped by our SR's office to sign a change order and found out we had to schedule our pre construction meeting since they begin working in just over a week!
Our pre construction meeting with the project manager went great! He's a younger guy but don't let that fool you... hes extremely analytical and his attention to detail and knowledge with even the most off the wall questions we came up with give us a lot of confidence in this part of the process. He really made it clear that he is there to work with us and encouraged us to ask questions and be involved. Between the great relationship we have with him and our sales rep, it more than makes up for the frustrations we had with NVR.
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