One Life, Well Traveled

The new “deadline” to get started building the house is the end of December/early January.  Given that the units put up recently are almost done (their closing date is December 7th I seem to recall), that would mean that under ideal circumstances we are looking at closing sometime in early March.

Under less than ideal circumstances (meaning snow before early-mid January when framing would be complete) that could be later.

Bear in mind, that last year, Charlottesville had two ginormous snows (see snowpocalypse 2009) by that time last year.

This is my skeptical face.  Can you tell?

Checked on the house recently, but 814 Rockcreek Road is still just some air occupying red dirt.  There has been substantial progress on the other units, which started being built the first week in October (that’s a month ago, for those of you keeping track), but as yet there’s been not one wit of progress on our future home.

Now, don’t get me wrong, there could be substantive advantages for them finishing later.  According our landlord, it is much easier to find someone to pick up the lease on our current place the more into spring things get.  Also, thanks to some good negotiating, we’ve still locked in our low interest rate regardless of when we close (adjustments are the builder’s problem, not ours). I’m more or less just trying to get a “when” but the Project Manager, unlike the Selling Agent, doesn’t like making promises he can’t keep so I’m not going to get a “when” until they get something started.

But there’s is something in the way of things getting started, because the Selling Agent needs to sell one more unit in our building.  When that is going to happen is anybody’s guess.