My First Home

My First Home
Santorini 26 by Metricon

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Waiting is the Hardest Part

For the last week my SS has been very quiet, rather than him calling me to tell me what is going on I have had to call him. Twice now he has said he would get back to me that afternoon with answers and twice he has not called back. Is there something going on I should know about?

The house has been finished now for a week. I received the Certificate of Occupancy over a week ago and was told that I should be getting the keys 19 November. When I spoke with him on Monday his Manager was going through to check things out at the time, yesterday it was QA so hopefully tomorrow it will be my turn. I need to get my Inspector in to have a look through, however they won't even give me a date that I can do that. I need to allow for the fact that my guy is probably going to find mistakes that need to be rectified so I guess I am looking at another week again.

So close and yet so far. Wish me luck!

7 comments:

  1. The silence does seem strange after such a good run. It must be killing you not knowing when you'll be able to move in???

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  2. Ky, what's happening?
    Drove past your place yesterday expecting you to be in already...

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  3. The house has been ready for weeks. The guy turned up to replace the window (without the window) so it is going in Friday. My SS has said we can settle on 30th however my bank does not want to play ball. They say it will take ten business days to have final payment so at the moment we are looking at 8th December.

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  4. Ahhh..... banks. Feel your pain. Showing my ignorance here - why does it take so long for the bank to release funds???

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  5. It appears they have to get a valuation which for some reason takes 6 business days. They then have to send the request to their trained monkies for them to write the cheque. Because their monkies are still learning to write with a pen it takes another four business days for the cheque to be signed and their snail to deliver it to my bank.

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  6. And then what would happen if they valued your house less than when you applied for the loan? They wouldn't then only pay a reduced amount and expect you to fund the shortfall, would they?
    The whole finance sector defies logic (and customer service basics) IMO.
    It appears you're doing an amazing job of keeping it all together! I would have lost it by now!!!

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  7. Don't tell me that!! When they first valued it they did it at a lot higher than my broker would have liked. You're trying yo give me more hey hairs than I've already got.

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