We're getting closer - house & closing

As promised, I wanted to get out an update on the house.  Ryan Homes has actually followed through and looks like they might hit the close date we were promised - not without a few bumps.  Let me walk you through everything.

After discussing a 1/8 close date, Ryan Homes continued to help out with our housing situation.  Meaning since they had originally quoted a 12/23 close date, we were out of our apartment.  We have since moved into corporate housing and had a majority of our things moved into storage.  The moving/storage company we used was awesome!  The guys wrapped everything and were careful with all of our things.  They also loaded our stuff into crates and our things will remain in crates until we have them move it to our new house. 

The movers were troopers - it was raining and freezing!

The corporate housing is OK, it is temp living after all. 

Fudge has been anxious and started sleeping on Rob's head just to make sure he's there:

Our project manager also called us a few weeks ago and said they'd like to still try for a 12/30 close date since they were inconveniencing us (I'm assuming they got some heat to close before the new year).  I laughed when he said it.  Anyways, as we continued to go visit the house, we were pleasantly surprised at how quick the house was moving along.  However, the project manager couldn't confirm a completion date, he said he'd let us know on Christmas Eve if we would close the following week.  RIDICULOUS.  How can we turn around and close, get days off work, schedule deliveries and move in such short notice?  Especially with offices closed on Christmas even & Christmas day.  We let NVR know that we were not comfortable closing on the 30th since the house was not close to being finished and Ryan Homes called on Christmas eve to tell us we'd stick with a Jan 8th close date.  Phew!  I think its a bit humorous  how unorganized this process has been.  But we are happy to have the close date confirmed and we've already scheduled our closing with NVR. 

Here are a couple of shots from the house:

We've pointed out to our PM that one of the shutters is broken.

 

These were taken last weekend, since then we have heard that flooring has gone in.  We'll be stopping out tomorrow to check on the progress.  We will also be checking a few things:  the broken shutter, the staining on the banister was splotchy and uneven, and the molding had a gap from the walls in some places.  Hopefully these are things that are just 'in progress' and fixed.  We'll see tomorrow and be sure to have more updates to you soon!  TGIF :) have a great weekend all!