4/10/10

I must say, my current band of construction partners are awesome :)  I am so glad to have found them!!  Hard workers, great work, what more could I ask for!?

We received the draw check, but they only sent half of what they were supposed to, which isn't going to get us very far.  Not happy to say the least.  Left us enough for kitchen cabinets, but not much more.  They need to do a further "review" of the items pulled from contingency which I don't understand.  I think its time to get my attorney involved. We just continue to hemmorhage money that is supposed to be reimbursed from our rehab escrow account, yet can't get them to release us our funds.

Saturday we rented a truck to clear out the storage unit (that will free up some $$ each month.  Now that the second floor is essentially done, there's no need for us to be paying storage fees on furniture.  Started 8am, finished about 12 hours later.  OK, so there was also a depot trip in there to pick up supplies the guys needed to continue on this week and a trip to the "old" house to bring over stuff I had packed up already.  We're trying to get the old house ready to be shown for sale, it helps to not have boxes stacked to the ceilings!  Hopefully the new house will be done so we can get the old one sold asap.

Sunday we went to ikea to order the kitchen cabinets, low and behold everything we needed was in stock!  Two hours to buy, 2 hours to load van, only to realize it's not gonna fit, and we head home.  Unload with some help from friends and we were just too pooped to go back for the rest.  We'll go tonight and get it.  This way we can get those assembled and installed this week and do another draw request for additional funds.

Great dinner sunday night at the diner with the sista, mom & co, Dave & Mike our rockin cool new neighbors.  I haven't laughed so hard in months, it was a welcome change of pace!!

Plumber working to finish up so we can have plumbing inspection round III, hopefully this will be it this time.

Anyhoo, general feeling is stressed, frustrated, overwhelmed and underfunded.  Running two houses isn't making it any easier.  I can't wait to be done!!!