For those who’ve ever seen that film, it is possible for you to to narrate to a few of these tales. My hubs and I discovered our dream townhome in Florida again in August 2014. They’d not been constructed but, however they have been fully our fashion. Mediterranean, trendy with all the luxurious facilities (pool, Nest, alarm, gated neighborhood, Wemo, Kevo, and so forth..). They have been attractive and the renderings locked us in. So, we put down our NONREFUNDABLE deposit and picked the one which we needed. Their estimation was that it will be accomplished by August 2015. That was excellent as a result of our lease was up in November 2015. Yay for us!
So, we waited patiently. We’d drive over to the townhomes and see the progress because the yr progressed. They completed constructing 1. We have been constructing 3, however they determined to complete ours earlier than constructing 2 since all items had been bought. 23 complete items in our cute little neighborhood.
So…come August, we needed to give 60 days discover to our residence, which I did, dutifully. I checked in a number of weeks later as to progress of our house and so they mentioned they have been pushing it to December. Okay, I believed. One month, we’ll must discover a place to remain. Our residence needed to cost an additional $250/month to not go yr to yr. WTF? No thanks. So, some expensive associates of ours supplied to allow us to keep at their place for a month. Good!
We ordered a POD, put all our stuff in there and loaded up a month’s price of garments in our suitcases and no matter else we thought we’d want for that quick time frame.
November got here and went. Thanksgiving…not in our new house. December got here and went. Christmas…not in our new house. January, got here and went. New 12 months’s…not in our new house. Our associates, bless their large hearts, continued to allow us to keep and we additionally had a apartment that my firm allowed us to remain in each as soon as in awhile to interrupt it up too. Speak about a blessing!
Nonetheless, we have been uninterested in dwelling out of a suitcase. I checked in with the builders and it was now pushed to February. Alrighty…so, we waited. We walked by way of weekly, the flooring have been in, the finishes have been getting accomplished, the roof was now on; it was all coming collectively…or so we thought. We simply type of walked round once we went over there, we didn’t INSPECT. We figured the builders, the supervisors and people doing the precise work would INSPECT and ensure all was getting accomplished accurately. Boy, we couldn’t have been extra mistaken.
February…Valentine’s Day…not spent in our new house. March, agh Spring. However nope, nonetheless not in our new house. I imply, I solely had so many garments rotating in my suitcase going backwards and forwards from our buddy’s home, to inns to the apartment from my firm. Evidently, by this level, we have been simply feeling irritated. What the heck was the maintain up. I imply, We have been now March of 2016!!! We had been ready for this place for over a yr and there have been solely 5 townhomes in our 1 constructing. OMG.
Lastly, lastly….the day got here in April that they mentioned we might shut. I used to be past ecstatic so I ran over to the lender to signal our paperwork. We didn’t get an opportunity to do a stroll by way of however have been instructed it simply wanted to be cleaned. No drawback! I’ll signal the docs and also you guys clear up our fairly new digs.
So, after signing…what appeared like 10,322 items of paper, we obtained the keys and headed to our “perpetually house”. So excited! Agh…
We walked in and all I might do was cry. THIS was what they thought of authorized to shut? It didn’t simply must be cleaned, it wanted to be FINISHED. I imply, we walked by way of and we couldn’t even sleep there that evening! Neither bathe labored and so they hadn’t accomplished the grasp rest room. I walked out and actually simply cried. From sheer disappointment and from full exhaustion of going by way of this for nearly 2 years and nonetheless dwelling out of a suitcase and paying for our stuff to be saved; it was all simply an excessive amount of.
So, we left and slept at our buddy’s home that evening. The following day we did a stroll by way of and punchlist. And, I’m being beneficiant right here, however there have been actually 4 pages of OUR punchlist, 62 gadgets and that didn’t account for the supervisor’s punchlist of things we didn’t even know wanted to be mounted.
Let me simply provide you with a fast instance of sure gadgets: Ummm…they forgot to place a vent in our rest room! There have been fixtures that may fall in case you touched them. They didn’t screw within the door hinges, so that they have been all simply kinda poking up throughout. There was paint everywhere in the flooring and {hardware} as a result of apparently no one needed to tape something up, they simply sprayed everywhere. There was an enormous stain on our lanai pavers the place they dripped gloss from the ceiling. A number of the doorways didn’t even shut all the best way. There have been chips on mirrors and cupboards. I’d speak about all of this to the contractor and they’d type of simply take a look at me and I’d suppose “That appears good to you?” You authorized this and thought “Yep, we’re good to go”. I imply…who does that?
Oh, and let’s put a cherry on high of this sundae, lets? One in every of my finest associates and her husband and daughter have been coming to go to in 7 days from LONDON. Yeah…so, that was the beginning. This was only the start. That was in April 2016.
***Aspect notice: my hubby and I needed to sit again and critically snort at some factors. It was instructing us a world of persistence. We watched The Cash Pit and cried laughing. We have been rising alongside this journey. We have been abundantly grateful for all that we have been going by way of and on some degree we knew all the things was occurring for a motive. We used to say “Someday we’ll look again on this and snort”. That day hasn’t come but, however writing about it positive does assist 😉
