Catching up.

Well here is what has happened so far, and by so far I mean it's taken about 1.75 years to get to the point of me typing this today.

1 - Township has finalized the DeLorenzo subdivision to provide us with a flag lot of 2.02 acres, this only took 1.5 years....apparently, record time according to the township zoning officer. Go speed racers go! This was the biggest hassle to date... of my life.. that I can remember anyway.

2 - Driveway permit and such has been paid and driveway construction is done until the final grade. Here is a few pictures to show the stages, only took about 2 days total so far to complete, final grade should take another day once the house is set.

3 - Deed has been recorded by township and then switched to our names courtesy of my parents (thank you very very much!)

4 - House contract has been finalized with Blue Valley Builders, biggest purchase of our lives thus far. I will post another blog detailing the house specs.



5 - This past Tuesday we met with Kevin Benner at KNBT to sign the paperwork for our construction loan/mortgage. These guys had the best rates without any lock penalties and the best closing costs as well. They also provided us with a 1/2 point towards our one point purchase for free. Points are just things you buy from the lender to lower your interest rate and this saved us well over $1000 since our builders are in a special program with them. Kevin was very helpful and I hope everything works out for us with them.

6 - Friday Feb. 29th we will be meeting with Betty from Blue Valley Builders to start "shopping" for our custom cabinets (which are made locally not in China haha) and then we move on to flooring and then plumbing type things after that. We will see how far we get as of tomorrow and I will post pictures up and a new blog tomorrow.