Today we wrapped up the house design with our architect, Home Designs by Marcy. Marcy was great to work with and really helped resolve some design change issues. One of the big changes was we pushed the house back on the property to open up the view from the back porch. That of course made the driveway longer which will impact the cost due to the extra concrete. We may have to compromise and shorten the drive to bring the costs down. We will have to see. We have 8 copies of the plans. This coming week we have appointments with three builders to get estimates. They may also request some tweaks to the house design. We have started trying to work with the HOA to get our plans reviewed by the HOA Architecture Committee (HAC) which must approve our plans before we can break ground. But as of today, they still have not gotten the check for the HOA transfer and title transfer papers from the Title Company. The HAC will not look at our plans until the transfer is complete and they get a $650 check from us. Then they need 3 weeks to “review” the plans and submit any change requests. Arrrggg. We had hoped to break ground the beginning of May but it looks like that won’t happen until mid-May. Once they start, we are estimating 5-6 months to complete. So hopefully before Thanksgiving. Meantime, Leslie is getting bored sitting in one place so she has started to apply for jobs in the area. She interviewed for a position at our favorite winery, Lost Oak Winery, which went well. She just needs something to keep her active that is fun as well.
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