5/17- We have light!

We stopped by, as per our usual Sunday routine, and we're very happy to have electricity and counters. Hopefully everything will be done by next Friday. Our final walk through and settlement are now the same day due to the electric company's delay. 12 days until settlement! 

We celebrated today with buying a washer/dryer and refrigerator. We bought Samsung front-loaders and a Whirpool French door refrigerator. We also got 3 year protection plans on all of the appliances. I think we got pretty good deals and used a mover's coupon I bought on eBay for $4 to save over $280.

 

My parents surprised us last week with a garage door opener and the installation. I'm so lucky to have them! We really couldn't have bought our house without their help.

Here are the pictures from today. The laminate doesn't look bad so we may delay replacing for a while. 

Kitchen

Bathrooms

It's plenty of room for me (and possibly Brad) to take a bath:)

He loves to test out the toilets. 

And the shower.

Powder room still is not installed.

Love this. The outlet is installed so now we have to buy the rope lights. 

Sold sign is finally up!

Let the 12 day count begin!

5/11 Update- Delayed Settlement 😩😩😩😩

We stopped by the house yesterday and we're kind of disappointed with the progress. I didn't even take pictures! It appears they hung some light fixtures and did some trim work but nothing really new. They still haven't fixed our closet door swing direction. Everyone else's house was locked and our front door and garage were wide open. We were also the only house to not have countertops installed.

Our major disappointment is that they are delaying our settlement by one week until May 29th. This is super frustrating and annoying! We have all of our stuff in storage so now we will most likely have to pay another month. We will also be in my parents' beach house for Memorial Day weekend so that sucks too, being that they will have people coming down. We now have to adjust our work schedules and our "movers." Our PM said the electric company will not be hooking up our houses until the end of this week so that will delay our settlement. He said, "I don't control the power company." Really? Is that supposed to make us feel better? Isn't this supposed to be set up well in advance? I mean the power lines are right in our backyard! I'm not very happy with our PM. He takes a few days or more to get back to emails even though I know he gets them on his phone. I don't think it should ever take more than a day to get back to emails unless you have an emergency... At least that's how I operate.

I guess we will just wait and hear what he says in the next few days. He did say the landscaping and the countertops will be installed this week.  I guess we'll see...

Lots of progress!!!

We stopped by the house on Sunday and were so happy with the progress! We now have cabinets, vanities, tiled showers, some trim, doors, and a driveway. Most things we are extremely happy about but there's a couple of things that we did not like.

Likes:

Love our White cabinets and the hardware! After snooping in our neighbors houses, we are SO glad we extended the cabinets! 

Upstairs bath vanity. I thought it would be a single vanity but it is slightly larger. We will be painting this white... Well, a friend of ours will.

Not sure if I love this, but every bottom cabinet has a pull out shelf. I think we might have to remove some to store larger items but overall, it's a nice feature. 

This is a pretty bad picture but this is our resilient floor in the bathrooms. It looks so much like tile you literally have to touch it.

If you look really hard, on top of the log is a quail. Brad thought this was a good sign as you don't usually see quail in neighborhoods. Whatever... I'll take it!

Dislikes:

This is our "stoop." It pretty much fits one person. Notice our roof overhang? We don't really have one. 

This is our neighbor's stoop. It is at least twice the size, has a roof overhang, and will have a nice light fixture. Why didn't we get this? Apparently, they like to make each house look a little "different." Which means, our house has no roof overhang and barely a stoop. However, the two interior units get shutters and the exterior don't. I don't get it but there's nothing we can do now!

You can see the AC unit from the great room window. I guess because it is an interior unit there is no where else to put it😒. 

This seems like is will be a waste of space. I asked our PM to not glue it shut as I'm sure I can store something there. 

Love the cabinets but when we opened them, they are really shallow! We weren't even sure if a plate would fit in there. I plan on bringing a plate with me next time to make sure it fits. Weird right? Im sure a plate will fit, won't it? They are also so tall that we will need to invest in a ladder. 

We had asked that this closet door open out. We figured if you really wanted to use it for storage, the space required for the door to swing would take up a third of the closet. We addressed this with our PM and he said they will fix it.

Overall, I was extremely happy with the progress and the house! Our PM informed us he is having trouble with the power company so we have to move our walk through to the morning before settlement. I guess this is ok? Not sure if they will have time to fix anything. BUT we do stop by rather often so I'll just bring up my concerns as they come. 

Here is the rest of the pictures I took on Sunday:

Neighbor's nice stoops😫

"Measuring" for the fridge.