Today, its been a week since we met our new PM and now that we had sometime to calm down and make our peace with the proposed delays, we are trying to address some important issues and work for the changed timeline. By the way, we had emailed a list of concerns (as suggested by our new PM) on the very day and no one from RH or NVR even acknowledged our email.
Our SR and PM however called my husband on Friday evening to report weekly "updates". As you all know, not much has happened inside the house since June 21st, but this time they said we passed the framing inspection (FINALLY) and they will be insulating the house today or tomorrow, then there will be another inspection before they get ready for dry wall. Once we are at that stage we will have another pre dry wall meeting with our new PM and they hope to start hanging dry wall Wednesday or Thursday... Ahhhhh I have been waiting for this since past 4 weeks. I guess I'll believe when I see it!
Our SR kept apologizing for the delays but he said that the closing may not be possible before Sept 15th and he also said they will "try to work" with NVR on extending our rate lock (I want to scream on the top of my voice, "oh come-on, you are the same company".....But deep breathes!). Anyway, our PM was more hopefully than our SR. Again, they never ever will give us an exact date and I don't think I believe any of them anymore.
Coming to the things we will have to address: We are currently scheduled to vacate our place by Sept 13th. For the record, we had planned for this time frame (rate lock date and moving time frame) based on the dates given to us in our pre dry wall meeting held on June 21st, when the projected closing date was August 23rd. That would have given us a good 3 weeks time to move, Oh Well!
We thought it would be better to work with our apartment management than to hang our hopes on RH. So we requested a week's extension to vacate our apartment but turns out our apartment is already leased to the future tenants. But our apartment management said they will check and see if a week's extension is possible with the future tenants. Isn't that nice of them?! Fingers Crossed!
Our SR and PM however called my husband on Friday evening to report weekly "updates". As you all know, not much has happened inside the house since June 21st, but this time they said we passed the framing inspection (FINALLY) and they will be insulating the house today or tomorrow, then there will be another inspection before they get ready for dry wall. Once we are at that stage we will have another pre dry wall meeting with our new PM and they hope to start hanging dry wall Wednesday or Thursday... Ahhhhh I have been waiting for this since past 4 weeks. I guess I'll believe when I see it!
Our SR kept apologizing for the delays but he said that the closing may not be possible before Sept 15th and he also said they will "try to work" with NVR on extending our rate lock (I want to scream on the top of my voice, "oh come-on, you are the same company".....But deep breathes!). Anyway, our PM was more hopefully than our SR. Again, they never ever will give us an exact date and I don't think I believe any of them anymore.
Coming to the things we will have to address: We are currently scheduled to vacate our place by Sept 13th. For the record, we had planned for this time frame (rate lock date and moving time frame) based on the dates given to us in our pre dry wall meeting held on June 21st, when the projected closing date was August 23rd. That would have given us a good 3 weeks time to move, Oh Well!
We thought it would be better to work with our apartment management than to hang our hopes on RH. So we requested a week's extension to vacate our apartment but turns out our apartment is already leased to the future tenants. But our apartment management said they will check and see if a week's extension is possible with the future tenants. Isn't that nice of them?! Fingers Crossed!
Poor thing - you have just had such a hard time throughout this whole process!!! The light at the end of the tunnel is that you will soon have a beautiful home and you will be able to "look back on this and laugh" as they say. It will be here before you know it though!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Caitlin.
DeleteI'm just hoping all this will be behind us soon. I have been looking at the pretty exterior for so long that its not holding my interest anymore. I guess I need to see some dry wall :-)
They will try to extend your rate lock?
ReplyDeleteI find that ridiculous. I am sorry but in my opinion, unless the reason is the owner not being able to close until a certain date that affects them going outside of their rate lock period, I feel that NVR & RH should always be responsible of this. Ugh, so frustrating. I hope this all works out for you.
I know!! They have been so inconsistent too!
DeleteMy colleague and soon to be neighbor was told that they will extend the rate lock for everybody who has been affected by the PM change. But when our SR contacted us, we were not promised anything like that. I just think they don't want to commit to anything (they play safe)but I guess they'll end up doing it anyway... (Hopefully!)
Oh wow! I'm glad things are starting to move along... but I am so afraid I am going to be in this exact same boat! Our PM told us once things are completely under roof, he can make up time...hopefully yours will too!! I'll be watching and hoping things go well for you! My apt told us no extension less than a month, no way, no how. :( We are gambling... I hope we hit big!
ReplyDeleteOur PM sounded very positive, but its very hard to trust anybody after all this. He kept saying he'll try to meet the Sept 6th (rate lock date) time frame.
DeleteHopefully you'll never have to face these kinda issues.
How frustrating!! If they want to make it happen, they will. Stay on them and definitely make them give you your rate!
ReplyDeleteYep, we are definitely going to do that! And I think they are very much aware that the issue was at their end. Just the way they talk and communicate around these things is annoying!
DeleteSo sorry for your delays!! I'm sure they can extend the rate lock. That's the least they can do!!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too. I think they plan to, but they don't wanna commit to anything. That's why we get all mixed responses.
DeleteYuck ! I feel your pain but it will all be worth it in a couple of weeks when you close. Hang in there, sending you good wishes!
ReplyDeleteThanks C! I'm just happy to see that things are starting again. It came to a complete halt for a month!
DeleteGood luck with the schedule, difficulty ahead but it will fall back on track at some point. Not extending the lock is stupid. It is their screw up..
ReplyDeleteIf this post shows up on email only and not as blog reply, then if you go to your blogspot dashboard by clicking Design on top right then comments, then spam, you'll find it happily there. I found out blogger thinks I am spamming. Just mark the posts as not spam and it will show up fine.. I may have many identical comments as I was trying to make a reply stick!
Thanks Ella! Yes, hopefully they'll work with rate lock. Our PM was very positive...I guess we'll see!
DeleteAnd thanks for the tip. I'll go check there! I saw few Anonymous spam comments in my email that never show up on the post. I guess its working on the actual spam but affecting some few bloggers too.