Much Ado About Something...

Wow. To those faithful few who have logged in and checked this blog frequently; always in anticipation of seeing a new photo or hearing about something great; I apologize. There has been SO much going on with the house that I've not taken the time to update the blog. Sorry.

But here goes...

This photo was taken on Thursday, Sept 19th; as we headed to the coast for our 3-day Disney Cruise. As you can see, they had just poured the concrete for the sidewalk, frontwalk and driveway. Thankfully they accepted our request to have the driveway poured as wide as possible. It's 17' wide, which is large enough for two cars parked side by side. Phew! (Because every home has a side-entry garage, some of the driveways are very narrow in this community, some barely wide enough for one car. Not sure how some of these home owners can make the turn into/out of their garage. With ours being so wide, we can use the garage for storage, instead of the cars... at least for awhile.)

Not too much different here, as this photo was taken just a few days later on Sunday, Sept 23rd. The final grading was done to the property, to prepare it for sod and landscaping. Still some exterior painting to be done (see the shutters). The big to-do here was that the house still needed lots of work on the inside on Thursday, and we were told by KB what parts of that should be done by Sunday (the day of this photo). 4 days later, and not a single thing had been done.

Well, we threw a fit. We were enraged because KB was telling us to be prepared to close on October 5th. With the amount of work to be done on our home, there was NO WAY it was going to close on time. I told our sales rep, "The only way I could see this house being ready to close on time, is if KB puts an inspector in the house for 10-12 hours a day while a crew of 8 to 20 'elves' come in and work like crazy, everyday between now and October 5th!" I was pissed.

The next morning I receive a call from a senior construction manager from KB who apologized for the lack of work being done on our home, and insisted that they will get the house ready to close on October 5th, still. He explained to me that they are putting one of their inspectors in our home all day, everyday between now and closing, while he inspects multiple crews working in the home each day. So it wasn't elves, but they pretty much did as I said they'd have to do.

Since that call, progress has been moving much faster in our house. It will be really close, but if they can continue their current pace, our home should be ready to close this coming Friday, October 5th.

Noel and I are continually making trips out to the home, and KB is having their inspector call me daily to let me know what's being done, and not being done in our home.

Here's a photo from this past Thursday, Sept 27th. As you can see, the landscaping has been added to the home. Basic package. Maybe if we can convince my Uncle Steve to come to Florida, he could come up with some good ideas to enhance our yard!

Here's some photos taken yesterday morning, Saturday, September 29th. The exterior:

And an image of the carpet. The carpet was installed on Friday. The power also was just turned on to the home on Friday as well. The A/C was powered up for the first time on Saturday. When we head out there again tomorrow, we'll let you know how that's going.

The house is gorgeous. We're both really excited and anxious to move-in and finally call it ours. Noel and I are also both really hoping that we can play host to all of our out-of-town friends and family sometime soon, too!

With all the stress involved in the home, I've barely had time to cry over all the pain caused to me by my Mets. But much like KB, they too are trying to swoop in at the last minute and get things done right for me. They need a win today... So wherever you are, enjoy this clip and keep your fingers crossed for a Mets win and a Philly loss: