@dragonfly66 wrote:
@securingourfuture wrote:Your new home is absolutely beautiful! Congratulations and I'm sending you e-hugs and positive e-thoughts for a smooth closing!
Thanks, I appreciate the positive thoughts. BUT, as luck would have it, it looks like I am going to have to push back my closing date by a couple of days. I was supposed to have my final walk through and inspection tomorrow morning, but the city utilities department decided that they didn't have time to turn on the power and water today, and likely won't have it on before Monday. Hurricane Irma caused enough of a mess up here that everything is a couple of days behind. So, I guess I have no choice but to wait. This is about to be the longest week of my life. I don't know if I'm going to make it.
Oh wow. I know you are frustrated. I'm in Houston and we just fought Harvey, so I understand. At least you close after the storm, so any possible damages or issues can be addressed prior to move-in. Keep us posted and hang in there. You're eyeing home base now!
@dragonfly66 wrote:
@securingourfuture wrote:Your new home is absolutely beautiful! Congratulations and I'm sending you e-hugs and positive e-thoughts for a smooth closing!
Thanks, I appreciate the positive thoughts. BUT, as luck would have it, it looks like I am going to have to push back my closing date by a couple of days. I was supposed to have my final walk through and inspection tomorrow morning, but the city utilities department decided that they didn't have time to turn on the power and water today, and likely won't have it on before Monday. Hurricane Irma caused enough of a mess up here that everything is a couple of days behind. So, I guess I have no choice but to wait. This is about to be the longest week of my life. I don't know if I'm going to make it.
Again, I find this interesting. Our builder has had the power and water on for over a month now in our new construction home. All we have to do is have it transfered to us the day of closing. On a good note, our lender has told us they expect the clear to close on Monday or Tuesday and closing is not scheduled until the 28th.
@Spider07 wrote:
@dragonfly66 wrote:
@securingourfuture wrote:Your new home is absolutely beautiful! Congratulations and I'm sending you e-hugs and positive e-thoughts for a smooth closing!
Thanks, I appreciate the positive thoughts. BUT, as luck would have it, it looks like I am going to have to push back my closing date by a couple of days. I was supposed to have my final walk through and inspection tomorrow morning, but the city utilities department decided that they didn't have time to turn on the power and water today, and likely won't have it on before Monday. Hurricane Irma caused enough of a mess up here that everything is a couple of days behind. So, I guess I have no choice but to wait. This is about to be the longest week of my life. I don't know if I'm going to make it.
Again, I find this interesting. Our builder has had the power and water on for over a month now in our new construction home. All we have to do is have it transfered to us the day of closing. On a good note, our lender has told us they expect the clear to close on Monday or Tuesday and closing is not scheduled until the 28th.
Yeah, I don't know why DR Horton waits so long to request that the utilities be turned on. I got my clear to close a couple of days ago for what was supposed to be a closing on the 19th.
To add to the misery, they painted my shutters and door the wrong color and the tree they planted in the front yard is dead, so they are going to have to fix those things as well. Those are easy fixes. The biggest issue is that the houses on my side of the street are really closes together (10-13 feet apart), and the cement platform that they built for the A/C unit to sit on is massive. A normal platform is just barely bigger than the unit itself and flush with the ground. All of the other houses in my subdivision have normal sized platforms. Mine is 4ft x 4ft and 3-4 inches above ground. I'm really concerned because the lot is graded so that the water drains toward the front of the house and I think this is going to cause some drainage issues which will kill the grass. Take a look at the difference.
This pic is the A/C unit from the house across the street which is the same floorplan that I have. This is how it's supposed to look.
This is what they gave me. They built a freaking patio for my A/C unit! I'm asking them to re-do it and make it a normal size. There is no reason it needs to be this big. The black plastic fencing is where my neighbors yard starts. I basically will have to walk into his yard to go around this thing if I'm walking down the side of the house. Not good.
Well, my agent spoke with the sales agent for the subdivision today. DR Horton has said they will not fix the platform for the A/C unit because there is nothing to fix. It is within code, so they won't even give me a credit at closing to have it fixed myself. Of course they couldn't say why mine was built that way and nobody else's was. They did say that they would address my concern about it causing a drainage problem though. As a last ditch effort to keep it from looking so intrusive, I'm asking them to at least raise the sod around the edge so that it will be flush to the ground and won't look so obtrusive. We'll see what they say.
To top it off the city still hasn't gotten the utilities turned on and the builder is now pushing my closing date back to the 27th to give the city time to get the utilities turned on and for final inspections to be done. I've had to push all of the correlated activities (e.g., movers, etc.) back to accommodate this. I feel like I'm being tortured. At least they'll change my shutters and door to the right color and replace the dead tree they gave me. 
The longest week of my life is (almost) over!!! My closing is scheduled for tomorrow at 4:00p.m. 
Here are a few pics of the finished product. The shutters and doors got repainted to a dark red option that I chose. it doesn't show as well in the pics below, but it does look good. They also replaced the dead tree and made the A/C unit's platform much less obtrusive looking by raising the sod around the edge of the platform. I am pleased. I cannot wait for closing tomorrow! Anyway, here is what the final product looks like. I'm finally about to cross the finish line.
this good movtivation, keep up
Annnnd, we're done! I am now the proud new owner of this beauty. The closing was a breeze and only lasted about 40 minutes, and I was out of there with keys in hand. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am. I learned so much on this site regarding what to do and not to do in rebuilding my credit so that I could get this point. I am grateful to the everyone who shared their experience because that's truly what makes this site so valuable. Thank you.
