Archive for March, 2003

it’s a major award

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

We went to the home show last weekend, and it was honestly a bit of a disappointment. Since we’re so far down the road toward signing with Builder Chad, we don’t really have the need to look at various products and construction materials or other such things. We’ll use the windows he likes to use, […]

interest rate locked

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

We were very pleased to find out that one side effect of our delaying for so long is a lower interest rate on our loan. I know interest rates aren’t terribly exciting to most people, but it was a big deal for us.

We are working with a local bank that offers a package that looks […]

interviewing builders

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

So far I’ve given my full set of drawings (and they’re very complete and detailed) to two builders from our list. All of the guys on our list came from direct references, so we know they all have at least one favorable vote.
Intriguingly, one builder was just completely disinterested in the project. He had nothing […]

end of the hiatus

Monday, March 17th, 2003

There hasn’t been an update here for a good while. That’s not totally indicative of a lack of progress on the project. It’s more that I didn’t expect people to be vastly interested in updates along the lines of “we met with the architect and moved the closet wall six inches north in the guest […]