Closing in 3 hrs / Earthquake/ Hurricane

Its finally time!


Earthquake & hurricane damage: Our carpet got soaked in an area of our current home in the basement during the hurricane, because apparently during the earthquake we got two foundation cracks. SMH...we have lived there 4 years without ever getting water damage in the basement. With boxes and crap all around we had to pull up the carpet and have someone come out so that we could get new carpet installed for our renter by next week. All I was thinking is that it could have been worse and I am happy it happened, before the renter moved in.

The new house had no visible damage from the earthquake or hurricane other than the yard sunk in in some areas and Ryan plans to fix it this week.


Also I have been meaning to post but things have been so hectic I cannot even begin to explain, we have had to do soooooo many things that I feel like my brain is spinning. I can barely keep up with the emails and the to do list is never ending! Like Ravenna Rant & HW both said, the inbox is cluttered, house is in shambles (but packed), and as soon as I scratch and item off my list, two more pop up. lol...I feel like a nut and not to mention I packed our iron so this week I have been semi wrinkled at work lol and smh!

Here are a few things we have purchased:

LG steam washer & dryer
Samsung 59 inch slim 3D smart plasma TV
King Sleigh bed from Haverty's
Sealy king size plush pillow top mattress (not shown)
Curtain Rods (not shown)

Make sure you have the stores to price match because we saved a ton of money doing that for our electronics! I have a loooong laundry list of things I still need to purchase, but I am going to take it one day at a time and just get the essentials. I am a nut so you will have pictures with in the next few days because I cannot rest until my house is in order! lol...It will be old things in the new place, but I will show you what we have....anywho happy building and WE ARE GOING TO GET OUR KEYS TODAY!!!!! Yaaaaay! lol

Oh yeah they are almost done!

We went past the house yesterday and boy oh boy what did we find?? A locked front door, but that's okay we went through the garage lol...and we have power!!! That's right we have water and electric!!!!

Everything looked so good...

They painted some of the shutters. to black. The gray color is the factory color.

Secondary upstairs bath and my nieces head. :)

Secondary bath vanity

Chandelier

tray ceiling corrected in master bedroom

master shower

master bath...I love how the tile looks, these pics do not show how good they look.

Master Vanity. I can not wait to get rid of that mirror!!! lol

Foyer stairway w/o the upgrade... :( Still can't believe I didn't get that upgrade smh)

Basement with holes filled in on the floor.

Basement again.

Basement under morning room. We also have pre-wiring from guardian in this area.

Basement again and door to unfinished media room. It is so large, we also have a 3 piece rough in on the other side for our future bathroom.

Kitchen looking into family room

Hardwood in kitchen! :)

Cabinets still broken, and the glass doors are still missing, but I think they are waiting for the cabinets to come in.

powder room

We still have a few things that have not been finished and need to be fixed, however as you can see things are coming right along!


Until next time happy building!

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Morning Room window issue...

So when I was looking at my windows in my family room and morning room, I noticed that they were two different types of windows. I kept thinking something was strange. So I looked at the model homes windows and saw that the model's windows were the same in the family room and morning room. The reason that it bothered me is because the morning room windows are much larger in the model and let in much more light and looks more elegant. So I emailed my PM with the pictures and asked him why the difference?

This is his response:

The design of both the family room and morning room windows was changed in 2010 when Charles and many other counties adopted the 2009 International Residential code. The new code required a certain percentage of wood structure in all walls to prevent a wall collapse due to wind shear in a high wind event. Your sales rep should have had you sign a drawing on the morning room windows at time of contract. I try to make sure you see all floor plans at time of precon where windows are shown also.  We cannot change this as it would violate county code to do so. My apologies for any confusion. ~Project Manager

Our Family Room

Our morning room

model family room

model morning room

I was pretty disappointed to find this out, because the models morning room is so beautiful and lets in a ton of light! I still do love the fact that I have a morning room, its just is disappointing that it will not be this big grand feature with lots of light... :/ Hopefully it will look a little better when they finish, right now, it just looks dark...lol

I couldn't help myself! Tons of Pics!

So after I saw that email from the guardian rep,I thought to myself how does she plan to do the pre-wire walk through and when we left the lot on Friday we only had foundation and a few board and Monday is a Holiday??? What in the world is going on with our house!!???!!

Soooo instead waiting patiently and going to the lot tomorrow after work, I couldn't take it and we went to see the house!!

Boy you'd never believe what I found......

Booooyah!!!!!

really a wholllle house!

side view

 A whole freaking house! I mean really the entire house is framed and has windows and doors! Can I get a round of applause for the Ryan Home builders!!!! *Cheering* I was so happy! Here are the rest of my pics from today....

family room

morning room

egress window in basement

back of the house

morning room and back yard :)

door from garage

basement

study

foyer

master with sitting room

media room, we wont finish this until later

garage with window :)

from the edge of our yard...and I was worried it was going to be small!

side of house...with decorative piece

 

 

These pics are for BD as promised....this is the Avalon aka the big kahuna they are building a few houses down...

Avalon 1

Avalon 2

Avalon 3

Guardian Update & Super Sales Rep

Sooooo today, my hubby forwards me an email from guardian that said:

Hi there,

I wanted to let you know that we are getting ready to wire your new home (Brentwood lot 9) and wanted to see if you wanted to join me on site to walk through and finalize locations for your equipment.  I was currently looking at next Wednesday (July 6th) at 2pm at your home site.  Please let me know if you would like to join me.

Sooooo that means that things are moving much faster than the schedule my PM gave me! Wow, he said things would move fast but geez, its time to walk through already! I am even more excited to go past after work tomorrow and check things out! :)

Also, my Sales Rep is doing a phenomenal job. She has processed all of our change requests w/o too many hick-ups and has rarely told us flat out "NO". She is always happy when we speak with her and she is great with communicating with us. So yesterday I got the mail and I had a card and it was from our sales rep. My grandmother passed in April and grandfather passed in June, so things have been kinda of difficult. Getting that Sympathy card really meant a lot. I have lost 3 grandparents (all) in the past 2 years and they raised me once my mom passed so it was just a very nice gesture. She is the "woman" if you ask me, if everything else goes well I plan to send her something nice, for just being a great sales rep and going out of her way to help us. She always gives me and the hubby big hugs when she sees us....

Well that's it until tomorrow e-neighbors ... as always.....HAPPY BUILDING!!!!!

Project Manager disapperaing act...

Thus far our Ryan journey has been GREAT! Our sales rep is great, our loan officer is great, and our pm seems great! Everything is on schedule, if not ahead. Today the hubby and I wanted to check on a few things that we changed recently (I got my Hardwood :) and padding upgrades) and we find out that he is on vacation until NEXT WEDNESDAY?

Hey, no FYI I'm going on leave or had an emergency. No, if you have any questions or concerns you can contact this person or N,o assurance that your house will be okay or follow up at all. He hasn't communicated with us once since we had the pre-construction meeting. They seem to be on schedule and doing a great job so far, but I'm just saying it would have been nice to speak with him or to have a chance to ask any questions we would have liked him to answer before he left, since it will be over a week until he returns.

I see that my e-neighbor's PM's seem to be contacting you all the time with updates, I'm just a little jealous that our PM has not been as responsive. I really do hope everything is okay nd he really is on vacay but a heads up just would have been nice. We did speak with the PM that is filling in and he assured us that everything is on schedule, that he received our last change order and that we should be all framed and under roof by Friday! SO I am still happy, just a little disappointed. I know I will be over it once I visit the lot on Friday. I can't wait to see and post pics!

Until then... happy building folks!

3 years strong!

Hey guys, I thought I'd write a quick post to say happy anniversary to my DH. Three years ago today, I said "I do" to the man of my dreams.

 

6/28/2008

On this day...

I married my best friend...

Now we are building our dream home and about to build our family. :)