86Aviator
Pre-takeoff checklist
This is probably more of a rant, good people of POA. After spending 2020 working largely from home in a two bedroom midtown Atlanta apartment, my wife and I decided in January to build a house out in the 'burbs. We plan to grow our family, interest rates are low, the subdivision and floorplan tick a lot of our boxes and would theoretically meet our needs for the next 20 years, the apartment got super small when we stopped regularly traveling for work - bottom line, it is finally time for these (relatively) newlywed 30-somethings to become homeowners.
As excited as we are, the progress is just. so. slow. There are something like 70 houses ahead of us in the queue (which we knew going in) and the local municipality takes almost 3 months to issue a building permit (which we also knew going in), but my goodness I thought we would have had a design appointment by now (one of two we're supposed to do). Nada. We contracted in mid-January and the only progress so far has been that my check for the 15% deposit cleared the bank.
I don't think our experience is unique in the region. One of my colleagues is rebuilding his lake house (near the GA/NC line) after it burned in late 2019, and his construction progress has also been slow and frustrating. Suppliers are/were having trouble with certain things (windows and appliances, I've heard) and general labor can be somewhat...unpredictable. We're just along for the ride that we signed up for.
We knew the timeline going in, the experience is not unique to us, this is what we signed up for...we're just so ready to get out of midtown Atlanta and into our new home.
Like I said, just a rant. If anyone else is building, I hope your timelines are more palatable.
As excited as we are, the progress is just. so. slow. There are something like 70 houses ahead of us in the queue (which we knew going in) and the local municipality takes almost 3 months to issue a building permit (which we also knew going in), but my goodness I thought we would have had a design appointment by now (one of two we're supposed to do). Nada. We contracted in mid-January and the only progress so far has been that my check for the 15% deposit cleared the bank.
I don't think our experience is unique in the region. One of my colleagues is rebuilding his lake house (near the GA/NC line) after it burned in late 2019, and his construction progress has also been slow and frustrating. Suppliers are/were having trouble with certain things (windows and appliances, I've heard) and general labor can be somewhat...unpredictable. We're just along for the ride that we signed up for.
We knew the timeline going in, the experience is not unique to us, this is what we signed up for...we're just so ready to get out of midtown Atlanta and into our new home.
Like I said, just a rant. If anyone else is building, I hope your timelines are more palatable.