Well, permits for the house came back a week later so we were pretty excited that they hadn't taken the full 3 weeks. This was supposed to mean they break ground on 7/2/12. Well they didn't actually break ground until the following Monday 7/9/12. We went out every week and took pictures and at the end of July got an update from Hubble saying the house was to be completed on 9/24/12. This was a bit past the 65 days the builder had said it will take from the time they broke ground but I was just happy to have an end date in sight!
Well, we continued to just work and live our life with nothing too exciting going on and going to see our house every chance we got and the progress being made. Well on Labor Day my mom sister and I made invited for my baby shower with the address being my new address. On Tuesday I asked for an update from the builder to make sure the expected closing date was to be 9/24/12. This is when we found out there had been some type of delay (they said due to HVAC installers) and that estimated completion date was middle of October.
The next week consisted of fighting with the builder and trying to figure out what they were thinking, how this happened, and that was too late. All we wanted was to get us into our house. Well after a lot of phone calls and meetings they agreed to a date of Oct 8th. (Yes I had to redo all the baby shower invites, luckily my sister in law who was throwing the shower for me had just bought some so we used those.)
Well as it got closer to the 8th the builder called again saying the cabinets were on back order and was going to be another 3 week delay. Our realtor let them know that of COURSE this was not ok, that would put us at my due date and we needed in the house before the baby comes! They allowed us to upgrade our cabinets, and it was also with a different company. Josh went and picked them out and we continued on. Well then they said there was a delay with those cabients! Luckily it was only a couple days. Soooo after all was said and done the house was completed and we had our final walkthrough on 10/12/12 and were supposed to be able to close with the bank on that day as well.
Unfortunately at this point we ran into ANOTHER hiccup, this time with the bank. To make a long story (and more than our fair share of phone calls and e-mails) the Processor at the bank hadn't been doing her job, none of our paperwork had been sent to underwriting, she finally walked out on her job, and someone new took over. (this was after about a week of phone calls and e-mails trying to get a hold of her to get a real story, and then another week of phone calls to the bank to get the story about why we weren't closing on our house) so now it seems progress is finally getting made on the underwriting and we're in a race to see which comes first... moving into our house or the baby coming. We're hopeful that it'll be, we sign closing paperwork, then that day or the next we get to have our baby!
Needless to say because of all this work with our house it has been hard to be excited just about the baby. Next post I'll give an update on how the pregnancy has been, since we're now finally up to date on the "living" situation of our lives. HAHA
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